NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 730 MHz
  • Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 780 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 6.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 4600 MHz
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2401 vs 935
  • Around 64% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9233 vs 5635
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4027 vs 1935
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3710 vs 2380
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4027 vs 1935
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3710 vs 2380
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 February 2019 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed 937 MHz vs 730 MHz
Boost clock speed 1038 MHz vs 780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 65 Watt
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 4600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2401 vs 935
Geekbench - OpenCL 9233 vs 5635
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4027 vs 1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710 vs 2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4027 vs 1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710 vs 2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3354

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 338 vs 240
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 338 vs 240

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2401
935
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
240
338
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9233
5635
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4027
1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3710
2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4027
1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3710
2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3354
Name NVIDIA GeForce MX250 AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 2401 935
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 338
Geekbench - OpenCL 9233 5635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 46.992
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 535.24
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 44.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 141.816
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4027 1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710 2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4027 1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710 2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 888

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce MX250 AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP108B Oland
Launch date 21 February 2019 5 May 2015
Place in performance rating 896 898
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz 780 MHz
Core clock speed 937 MHz 730 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 1,800 million 1,040 million
Floating-point performance 599.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 18.72 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 4600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 73.6 GB / s