GeForce 825M vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1060, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1506 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 825M		33 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 87 Watts (264%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be 1265% faster than the GeForce 825M in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 825M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 182208 (1265%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (more or less 786%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 825M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 825M		13600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106880 (786%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 825M		6800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 65488 (963%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.