ATI Radeon 9250 vs GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameGF116RV280
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)1 March 2004 (20 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores144no data
Core clock speed720 MHz240 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.280.96
Floating-point processing power0.4147 TFLOPSno data
ROPs244
TMUs244

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB64 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/s3.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

GT 640 OEM Rebrand has an age advantage of 8 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand and Radeon 9250. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand
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