AMD Radeon 530X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

VS

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (28W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530X Mobile +227%

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 24

GPU Name

GT215

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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