AMD Radeon R4 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R4 Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 60% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 128 vs 96
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 87% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 28 Watt
• Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 99 vs 50
• Around 2% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8386 vs 8215

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

• 2.5x more texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
• Around 17% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 204.8 gflops
• Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 554 vs 342

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	342 554
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	99 50
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	8386 8215

Compare specifications (specs)