NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 941 MHz
  • Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 384
  • 2.3x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 9.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7352 vs 782
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 499 vs 247
  • Around 37% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 21586 vs 15796
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 October 2014 vs 27 January 2014
Core clock speed 1038 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed 1127 MHz vs 941 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,659 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7352 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark 499 vs 247
Geekbench - OpenCL 21586 vs 15796

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 825M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7352
782
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
499
247
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
21586
15796
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce 825M
PassMark - G3D Mark 7352 782
PassMark - G2D Mark 499 247
Geekbench - OpenCL 21586 15796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 92.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1146.534
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 308.42
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2942

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Kepler 2.0
Code name GM204 GK208
Launch date 7 October 2014 27 January 2014
Place in performance rating 449 790
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1127 MHz 941 MHz
Core clock speed 1038 MHz 850 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 1,659 gflops 722.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1536 384
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 30.11 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 1300 Million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size large medium sized
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

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