NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M vs NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M and NVIDIA GeForce 320M 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 5 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 3x more pipelines: 96 vs 32
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 522 vs 210
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 59
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 1 April 2010
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines 96 vs 32
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 522 vs 210
PassMark - G2D Mark 174 vs 59

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M

  • Around 32% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2474 vs 1875
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1735 vs 690
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1735 vs 690
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2474 vs 1875
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1735 vs 690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1735 vs 690

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 320M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
522
210
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
174
59
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1875
2474
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
690
1735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
690
1735
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M NVIDIA GeForce 320M
PassMark - G3D Mark 522 210
PassMark - G2D Mark 174 59
Geekbench - OpenCL 1875 2474
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 1735
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 859
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 690 1735

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla 2.0
Code name GF108 MCP89
Launch date 3 September 2010 1 April 2010
Place in performance rating 1574 1576
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1120 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 215.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 96 32
Texture fill rate 6.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 486 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
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
Optimus