NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and AMD Radeon R7 250 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.

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
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

Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 8 October 2013
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

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 937 MHz
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1038 MHz

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 937 MHz
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz vs 1038 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	2392
PassMark - G2D Mark	240
Geekbench - OpenCL	9329
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	888

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP108B	Oland
Launch date	21 February 2019	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	861	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	937 MHz	1000 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		806.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		25.2 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