AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96

Launch date	14 June 2011 vs 15 June 2009
Pipelines	480 vs 96

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	802
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1597
PassMark - G3D Mark		554
PassMark - G2D Mark		50
Geekbench - OpenCL		8215

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	Tesla 2.0
Launch date	14 June 2011	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1531	1532
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Code name		GT215
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	96
Core clock speed		500 MHz
CUDA cores		96
Floating-point performance		240 gflops
Gigaflops		360
Texture fill rate		16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		28 Watt
Transistor count		727 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Shared memory	0	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
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI