AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
Around 87% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 28 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2018 vs 15 June 2009
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 28 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Around 67% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	886
PassMark - G3D Mark		554
PassMark - G2D Mark		50
Geekbench - OpenCL		8215

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Raven	GT215
Launch date	23 April 2018	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1541	1537
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	727 million
CUDA cores		96
Floating-point performance		240 gflops
Gigaflops		360
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		16 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	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	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
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