NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 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 GT 525M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 28 Watt
Around 86% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 93 vs 50

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 28 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	93 vs 50

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Around 67% higher texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 9.6 billion / sec
Around 4% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 554 vs 461
4.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8215 vs 1899

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s vs 9.6 billion / sec
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	554 vs 461
Geekbench - OpenCL	8215 vs 1899

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

461

554

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

1899

8215

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
PassMark - G3D Mark	461	554
PassMark - G2D Mark	93	50
Geekbench - OpenCL	1899	8215
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	131.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	8.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2623
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2623

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GF108	GT215
Launch date	5 January 2011	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1534	1535
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
CUDA cores	96	96
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	96
Texture fill rate	9.6 billion / sec	16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	727 million
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 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
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 bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI