NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 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 12 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 576 MHz
  • 3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 15.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 155 Watt
  • 6.7x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2392 vs 579
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 240 vs 92
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 February 2019 vs 8 November 2006
Core clock speed 937 MHz vs 576 MHz
Pipelines 384 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 155 Watt
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2392 vs 579
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 vs 92
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3349

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2392
579
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
240
92
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3349
Name NVIDIA GeForce MX250 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 2392 579
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 92
Geekbench - OpenCL 9329
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 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4027
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 888

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce MX250 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Tesla
Code name GP108B G80
Launch date 21 February 2019 8 November 2006
Place in performance rating 861 1291
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz
Core clock speed 937 MHz 576 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 384 128
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 155 Watt
Transistor count 1,800 million 681 million
CUDA cores 575
Floating-point performance 345.6 gflops
Texture fill rate 36.8 billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 270 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Memory bus width 64 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 900 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 768 MB
Memory bandwidth 86.4 GB / s

Technologies

SLI