NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon R7 M350

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and AMD Radeon R7 M350 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), 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 26% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 825 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 6x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2392 vs 1167
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 240 vs 235
  • Around 37% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9329 vs 6788
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4027 vs 1830
  • 5.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3710 vs 722
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3227
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4027 vs 1830
  • 5.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3710 vs 722
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3227
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 February 2019 vs 5 May 2015
Boost clock speed 1038 MHz vs 825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2392 vs 1167
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 vs 235
Geekbench - OpenCL 9329 vs 6788
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4027 vs 1830
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710 vs 722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3227
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4027 vs 1830
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710 vs 722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3227

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M350

  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 937 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 937 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M350

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2392
1167
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
240
235
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9329
6788
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4027
1830
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3710
722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3227
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4027
1830
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3710
722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3227
Name NVIDIA GeForce MX250 AMD Radeon R7 M350
PassMark - G3D Mark 2392 1167
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 235
Geekbench - OpenCL 9329 6788
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 1830
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710 722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3227
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4027 1830
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710 722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3227
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 888

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce MX250 AMD Radeon R7 M350

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 3.0
Code name GP108B Meso
Launch date 21 February 2019 5 May 2015
Place in performance rating 861 1155
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R7 300 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz 825 MHz
Core clock speed 937 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt
Transistor count 1,800 million 3,100 million
Compute units 6
Floating-point performance 779.5 gflops
Texture fill rate 24.36 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed

Memory

Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore