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.

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

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
12.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2418 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	2418 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 241

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	329 vs 241

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2418

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

241

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	2418	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	241	329
Geekbench - OpenCL	9204
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