AMD Radeon HD 6480G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6480G and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6480G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 240 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 50
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 June 2011 vs 15 June 2009
Pipelines 240 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 vs 50

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 444 MHz
  • 12.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8215 vs 673
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 554 vs 257
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 444 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 8215 vs 673
PassMark - G3D Mark 554 vs 257

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6480G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
673
8215
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
50
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
257
554
Name AMD Radeon HD 6480G NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Geekbench - OpenCL 673 8215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 592
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 50
PassMark - G3D Mark 257 554
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1696

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6480G NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Llano GT215
Launch date 15 June 2011 15 June 2009
Place in performance rating 1530 1532
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 444 MHz 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 240 96
Transistor count 1000 Million 727 million
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 240 gflops
Gigaflops 360
Texture fill rate 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 28 Watt

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

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

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

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI