NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and NVIDIA GeForce 825M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 941 MHz
  • Around 49% higher texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
  • Around 99% better floating-point performance: 1,439 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2580 vs 771
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 27 January 2014
Core clock speed 914 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed 1124 MHz vs 941 MHz
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2580 vs 771

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 236 vs 217
  • Around 62% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15796 vs 9741
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 236 vs 217
Geekbench - OpenCL 15796 vs 9741

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 825M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2580
771
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
217
236
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9741
15796
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M NVIDIA GeForce 825M
PassMark - G3D Mark 2580 771
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 236
Geekbench - OpenCL 9741 15796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Kepler 2.0
Code name GM107 GK208
Launch date 13 March 2015 27 January 2014
Place in performance rating 812 813
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1124 MHz 941 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 850 MHz
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops 722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 384
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s 30.11 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 1300 Million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 32 or 80 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 or GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI