NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and NVIDIA Quadro 500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 700 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 30.11 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
2.7x better floating-point performance: 722.7 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 782 vs 571
Around 81% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15796 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	782 vs 571
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 247

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	365 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

365

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

15796

8743

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796	8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Fermi
Code name	GK208	GF108
Launch date	27 January 2014	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	790	602
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	96
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1300 Million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0