NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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.

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
2x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 20 Watt
2.9x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 2100 MHz
Around 41% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 888 vs 629

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 12 March 2018
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 20 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 2100 MHz
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	888 vs 629

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 937 MHz
Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1038 MHz

Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 937 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1038 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

888

629

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
PassMark - G3D Mark	2392
PassMark - G2D Mark	240
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
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	629

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal
Code name	GP108B	GP108
Launch date	21 February 2019	12 March 2018
Place in performance rating	861	1476
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	1379 MHz
Core clock speed	937 MHz	1152 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	1,800 million
Floating-point performance		1,059 gflops
Texture fill rate		33.1 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		145 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	2100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR4
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		16.8 GB / s