NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM vs AMD FirePro M8900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM and AMD FirePro M8900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM

AMD FirePro M8900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 874 MHz vs 680 MHz
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Launch date	18 February 2013 vs 12 April 2011
Core clock speed	874 MHz vs 680 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

4.7x more texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 6.992 GTexel / s
20x more pipelines: 960 vs 48
7.8x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 167.8 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1650 MHz
13.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18738 vs 1345
3.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 10.529 vs 2.857

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s vs 6.992 GTexel / s
Pipelines	960 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops vs 167.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	18738 vs 1345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	10.529 vs 2.857

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M8900

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1345

18738

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2.857

10.529

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM	AMD FirePro M8900
PassMark - G3D Mark	356
PassMark - G2D Mark	189
Geekbench - OpenCL	1345	18738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.857	10.529
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1102
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2918
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1102
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		760.858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		26.149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		108.525

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM	AMD FirePro M8900
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF119	Blackcomb
Launch date	18 February 2013	12 April 2011
Place in performance rating	1405	1408
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	874 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	167.8 gflops	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	960
Texture fill rate	6.992 GTexel / s	32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		MXM-B
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	13.2 GB / s	115 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1650 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0