NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M videocard review

GeForce GTS 250M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 15 June 2009. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla 2.0 microarchitecture codenamed GT215.

Core clock speed - 500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 16 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 96. Floating-point performance - 240 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 727 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 28 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 51.2 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38534

554

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

Geekbench
OpenCL

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

345391

8215

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	554
PassMark - G2D Mark	50
Geekbench - OpenCL	8215

Games performance

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Low, 640x480	152.30
High, 1024x768	99.10

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	88.40
Medium, 1024x768	49.90
High, 1024x768	27.40

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT215
Launch date	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1530
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	240 gflops
Gigaflops	360
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt
Transistor count	727 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options	2-way
API support
DirectX	10.1
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management	8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI