AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 15 June 2009
Pipelines	320 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	902
PassMark - G3D Mark		554
PassMark - G2D Mark		50
Geekbench - OpenCL		8215

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Vega	GT215
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1534	1532
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	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
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.1
OpenGL		2.1
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
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI