NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 1 November 2009
Core clock speed	1120 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 6.025 vs 4.184
3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 512.106 vs 172.058
Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.497 vs 0.459
2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 19.201 vs 8.145
6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 83.628 vs 13.944

Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.025 vs 4.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	512.106 vs 172.058
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.497 vs 0.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	19.201 vs 8.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	83.628 vs 13.944

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4.184

6.025

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

172.058

512.106

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

0.459

0.497

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8.145

19.201

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

13.944

83.628

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	521
PassMark - G2D Mark	172
Geekbench - OpenCL	1875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.184	6.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	172.058	512.106
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.459	0.497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	8.145	19.201
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	13.944	83.628
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	859
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	690
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	859
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	690

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	RS880
Launch date	3 September 2010	1 November 2009
Place in performance rating	1572	1575
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	350 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	215.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	6.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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