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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Geekbench - OpenCL |
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Name | NVIDIA GRID K1 | NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI |
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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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 |
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HybridPower | ||
MXM 3.0 Type-B | ||
Power management | 8.0 | |
PowerMizer 8.0 | ||
SLI |