NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M 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 525M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 billion / sec vs 7.2 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 96 vs 48
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 230.4 gflops vs 95.04 gflops
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 456 vs 170
  • Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 94 vs 49
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2623 vs 2145
  • Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2623 vs 2145
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2011 vs 10 January 2010
Texture fill rate 9.6 billion / sec vs 7.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 48
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops vs 95.04 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 456 vs 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 94 vs 49
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2623 vs 2145
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2623 vs 2145

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

  • Around 65% higher core clock speed: 990 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5606 vs 1837
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 990 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 5606 vs 1837

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
456
170
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
94
49
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1837
5606
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2623
2145
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2623
2145
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M
PassMark - G3D Mark 456 170
PassMark - G2D Mark 94 49
Geekbench - OpenCL 1837 5606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2623 2145
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2623 2145

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla 2.0
Code name GF108 GT216
Launch date 5 January 2011 10 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1546 1547
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 990 MHz
CUDA cores 96 48
Floating-point performance 230.4 gflops 95.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 96 48
Texture fill rate 9.6 billion / sec 7.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 486 million
Gigaflops 142

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Dual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMIVGASingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
SLI