GeForce MX250 vs Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX250 's Advantages
Boost Clock1038MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 110W)
Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX250
+88%
797
Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
422
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Sep 2008
GeForce MX
Generation
M8x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
937 MHz
Base Clock
-
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.56 GPixel/s
24.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.56 GTexel/s
12.46 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
797.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
422.4 GFLOPS
24.91 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
84.48 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
110W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108B
GPU Name
M88
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1