AMD Radeon R7 250E vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 250E and NVIDIA GeForce G205M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R7 250E

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250E

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3355 vs 989
3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 989

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 December 2013 vs 8 January 2009
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355 vs 989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355 vs 989

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

3.9x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 55 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 55 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 250E
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G205M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3355

989

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3355

989

Name	AMD Radeon R7 250E	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	21.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	582.073
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	38.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	98.052
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355	989
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355	989
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0
PassMark - G2D Mark		294
PassMark - G3D Mark		92

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 250E	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Cape Verde	MCP79MX
Launch date	20 December 2013	8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$109
Place in performance rating	1046	1048
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	819.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	25.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	55 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5