NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600 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

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 400 MHz
24x more pipelines: 96 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 45 nm
87x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 522 vs 6
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 1 May 2010
Core clock speed	1120 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 45 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	522 vs 6
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 58

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

522

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

174

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
PassMark - G3D Mark	522	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	174	58
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
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	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	PowerVR SGX5
Code name	GF108	GMA 600
Launch date	3 September 2010	1 May 2010
Place in performance rating	1575	1576
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	215.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	45 nm
Pipelines	96	4
Texture fill rate	6.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
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	yes
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
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