NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX250 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M 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 Quadro FX 1600M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 625 MHz
12x more pipelines: 384 vs 32
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 50 Watt
3.8x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
18.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2423 vs 131
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 242 vs 109

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed	937 MHz vs 625 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2423 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	242 vs 109

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX250
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2423

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

242

109

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2423	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	242	109
Geekbench - OpenCL	9088
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX250	NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Tesla
Code name	GP108B	G84
Launch date	21 February 2019	1 June 2007
Place in performance rating	885	1309
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$149.90
Price now		$149.90
Value for money (0-100)		1.87
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	937 MHz	625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	384	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	289 million
Floating-point performance		80 gflops
Texture fill rate		10 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-HE
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	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Shared memory		0