AMD Radeon HD 6250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6250 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon HD 6250

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6250

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
Around 16% better floating-point performance: 104 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 50 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

Launch date	31 January 2011 vs 29 July 2008
Pipelines	80 vs 32
Floating-point performance	104 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

2.2x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 32 vs 30
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 166 vs 94
Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1505 vs 1005
Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1505 vs 1005

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	32 vs 30
PassMark - G3D Mark	166 vs 94
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1505 vs 1005
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1505 vs 1005

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6250
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

166

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1005

1505

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1005

1505

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6250	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
PassMark - G2D Mark	30	32
PassMark - G3D Mark	94	166
Geekbench - OpenCL	1244
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	444
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	444
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1005	1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1005	1505
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	347
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		56.838

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6250	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cedar	G96C
Launch date	31 January 2011	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1670	1667
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$85.99
Price now		$85.99
Value for money (0-100)		4.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1400 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	80	32
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	8.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		6.875" (17.5 cm)
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 / 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Shared memory	1
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
CUDA
SLI