NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) 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.

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
6.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 65 Watt

Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 3 April 2018
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1175 MHz vs 937 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1275 MHz vs 1038 MHz
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 6008 MHz
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3168 vs 2392
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 383 vs 240
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 20572 vs 9329
2.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1826 vs 888

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1175 MHz vs 937 MHz
Boost clock speed	1275 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 6008 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3168 vs 2392
PassMark - G2D Mark	383 vs 240
Geekbench - OpenCL	20572 vs 9329
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1826 vs 888

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2392

3168

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

240

383

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9329

20572

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

888

1826

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	2392	3168
PassMark - G2D Mark	240	383
Geekbench - OpenCL	9329	20572
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	1826

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 4.0
Code name	GP108B	Baffin
Launch date	21 February 2019	3 April 2018
Place in performance rating	861	486
Type	Laptop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	1275 MHz
Core clock speed	937 MHz	1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	384	1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	3,000 million
Compute units		14/16
Floating-point performance		2.6 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		20.40 GP/s
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		896/1024
Texture fill rate		81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Units		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB/s
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support