NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT 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 11 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 38% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 680 MHz
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 384 vs 120
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • 12.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2407 vs 192
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 1503
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 1503
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 February 2019 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 937 MHz vs 680 MHz
Pipelines 384 vs 120
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2407 vs 192
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 1503
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 1503

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 329 vs 240
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 329 vs 240

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2407
192
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
240
329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
1503
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
1503
Name NVIDIA GeForce MX250 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 2407 192
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 329
Geekbench - OpenCL 9273
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 1503
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 1503
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 888

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce MX250 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

Essentials

Architecture Pascal TeraScale
Code name GP108B M76
Launch date 21 February 2019 14 May 2007
Place in performance rating 902 899
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz
Core clock speed 937 MHz 680 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 120
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt
Transistor count 1,800 million 390 million
Floating-point performance 163.2 gflops
Texture fill rate 5.44 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 24 GB / s
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PowerPlay 7.0