NVIDIA GeForce 610M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 610M 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 610M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 610M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 34% higher core clock speed: 672 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 28 Watt
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 110 vs 50

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 December 2011 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed	672 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 28 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	110 vs 50

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

2x more pipelines: 96 vs 48
Around 86% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 129.02 gflops
Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 554 vs 290
6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8215 vs 1367

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	96 vs 48
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 129.02 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	554 vs 290
Geekbench - OpenCL	8215 vs 1367

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 610M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

290

554

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

110

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1367

8215

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 610M	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
PassMark - G3D Mark	290	554
PassMark - G2D Mark	110	50
Geekbench - OpenCL	1367	8215
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.747
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	104.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.27
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	5.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	9.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1602
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2848
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1602
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2848

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 610M	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GF108	GT215
Launch date	1 December 2011	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1529	1532
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	900 MHz
Core clock speed	672 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	48	96
Floating-point performance	129.02 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	727 million
Video decoders	H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p
Gigaflops		360
Texture fill rate		16 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Technologies
CUDA
Optimus
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI