NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 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 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 10% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 850 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 25x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 250 Watt
• Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 5448 MHz
• Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3710 vs 2852
• 80.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3710 vs 46
• 26.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 125.7

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

• 5.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 384
• Around 53% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 71.778 vs 46.992
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1285.141 vs 535.24
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.839 vs 2.64
• Around 69% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 75.347 vs 44.7
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 321.767 vs 141.816
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7037 vs 3357

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	46.992 71.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	535.24 1285.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.64 5.839
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	44.7 75.347
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	141.816 321.767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3710 2852
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 7037
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3710 46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 125.7

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