AMD Radeon HD 6250 vs NVIDIA ION 2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6250 and NVIDIA ION 2 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6250

NVIDIA ION 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6250

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1005 vs 928
Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1005 vs 928

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	31 January 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	80 vs 16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1005 vs 928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1005 vs 928

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6250
GPU 2: NVIDIA ION 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1005

928

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1005

928

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6250	NVIDIA ION 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	30
PassMark - G3D Mark	94
Geekbench - OpenCL	1244
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	444
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	444
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1005	928
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1005	928
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	347

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6250	NVIDIA ION 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Cedar	GT218
Launch date	31 January 2011	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1671	1668
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	16
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Shared memory	1	0
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		DDR2, DDR3
Technologies
DirectX 11	DirectX 11