NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI and ATI Radeon HD 4250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI

ATI Radeon HD 4250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI

6.4x more pipelines: 256 vs 40
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 950 MHz vs 792 MHz

Pipelines	256 vs 40
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	950 MHz vs 792 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4250

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 585 MHz
6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 585 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4250

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI	ATI Radeon HD 4250
PassMark - G2D Mark		408
PassMark - G3D Mark		123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		782
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		782

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI	ATI Radeon HD 4250
Essentials
Architecture	G9x	TeraScale
Code name	N10E-GTX	RV620
Launch date	2 March 2009	25 February 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	799
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	585 MHz	594 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	256	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1508 Million	181 million
Floating-point performance		47.52 gflops
Texture fill rate		2.376 GTexel / s
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10	10.1
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	yes
Memory bandwidth		6.34 GB / s
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video