NVIDIA GRID K1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K1 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 NVIDIA GRID K1

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 25.9x more texture fill rate: 4x 13.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 16 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 4x 192 vs 96
  • 5.4x better floating-point performance: 4x 326.4 gflops vs 240 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4x 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 651 vs 554
  • 5.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 259 vs 50
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 March 2013 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 4x 13.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 16 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4x 192 vs 96
Floating-point performance 4x 326.4 gflops vs 240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4x 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 651 vs 554
PassMark - G2D Mark 259 vs 50

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

  • 4.6x lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 130 Watt
  • 4.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8215 vs 1976
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 28 Watt vs 130 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 8215 vs 1976

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K1
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
651
554
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
259
50
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1976
8215
Name NVIDIA GRID K1 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
PassMark - G3D Mark 651 554
PassMark - G2D Mark 259 50
Geekbench - OpenCL 1976 8215
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 169.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.336
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 8.734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 10.43
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1237
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 319
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1237
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 319

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID K1 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla 2.0
Code name GK107 GT215
Launch date 18 March 2013 15 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $4,140
Place in performance rating 1534 1537
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 4x 326.4 gflops 240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 4x 192 96
Texture fill rate 4x 13.6 GTexel / s billion / sec 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 28 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 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 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
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 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4x 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 4x 28.51 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 4x 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI