NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 57% higher core clock speed: 598 MHz vs 380 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
26.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1745 vs 66
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 301 vs 174

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 1 May 2010
Core clock speed	598 MHz vs 380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1745 vs 66
PassMark - G2D Mark	301 vs 174

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

8.3x lower typical power consumption: 9 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	9 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1745

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

301

174

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	1745	66
PassMark - G2D Mark	301	174
Geekbench - OpenCL	6316
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	588.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.916
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	52.899
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3346
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2731
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3627
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3346
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2062

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GF114	RS880
Launch date	22 March 2012	1 May 2010
Place in performance rating	979	981
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	598 MHz	380 MHz
CUDA cores	336
Floating-point performance	803.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	336
Texture fill rate	33.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	9 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	181 million
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	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1526 MB
Memory bandwidth	72.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
SLI