AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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 R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand +126%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GT215

Sun LE

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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