GeForce MX250 vs GeForce GTX 870M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX250 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1038MHz vs 967MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)
GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX250
797
GeForce GTX 870M
+226%
2599
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
937 MHz
Base Clock
941 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
967 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
120.0GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
1344
24
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
24
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
24.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
12.46 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
797.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.599 TFLOPS
24.91 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108B
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
N15E-GT-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
6.1
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
