AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 500 MHz
2437.5x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 16 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 5% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8663 vs 8215

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s vs 16 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	8663 vs 8215

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

192x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 50 Watt

Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

8663

8215

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Geekbench - OpenCL	8663	8215
PassMark - G3D Mark		554
PassMark - G2D Mark		50

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Lexa	GT215
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1535	1532
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	96
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s	16 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	727 million
CUDA cores		96
Gigaflops		360
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI