NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 6.7 billion / sec vs 5.76 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 96 vs 80
  • Around 87% better floating-point performance: 215.04 gflops vs 115.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 720 MHz
Texture fill rate 6.7 billion / sec vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 80
Floating-point performance 215.04 gflops vs 115.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

  • Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1595 vs 690
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1595 vs 690
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1595 vs 690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1595 vs 690

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
690
1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
690
1595
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145
PassMark - G3D Mark 523
PassMark - G2D Mark 174
Geekbench - OpenCL 1875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 172.058
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 8.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 13.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 859
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 690 1595
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 859
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 690 1595

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF108 M92
Launch date 3 September 2010 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1563 1564
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1120 MHz 720 MHz
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 215.04 gflops 115.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 96 80
Texture fill rate 6.7 billion / sec 5.76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 242 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus