NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +1533%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

1664

Shading Units

96

104

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT215

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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