NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2333 vs 1679
  • Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2333 vs 1679
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3257 vs 3077
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3257 vs 3077
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 October 2012 vs 7 January 2010
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2333 vs 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2333 vs 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3257 vs 3077
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3257 vs 3077

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

  • 8.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 96
  • 4.7x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1082 vs 479
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 218 vs 141
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2070 vs 999
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2070 vs 999
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 800 vs 96
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1082 vs 479
PassMark - G2D Mark 218 vs 141
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2070 vs 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2070 vs 999

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
479
1082
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
141
218
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
999
2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
999
2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2333
1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2333
1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3257
3077
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3257
3077
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
PassMark - G3D Mark 479 1082
PassMark - G2D Mark 141 218
Geekbench - OpenCL 2229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 999 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 999 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2333 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2333 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3257 3077
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3257 3077
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 585.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 20.108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 98.606

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GF117 Broadway
Launch date 1 October 2012 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1208 1211
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 240.0 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 96 800
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1,040 million
Core clock speed 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size medium sized large

API support

DirectX 12 API 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
HDMI 1.3a