GeForce MX250 vs Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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 6% (1038MHz vs 975MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX250
797
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+150%
1997
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
937 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
1024
24
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
24.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
12.46 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
797.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
24.91 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108B
GPU Name
Pitcairn
-
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1