Radeon Picasso Embedded vs GeForce GTS 250M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking991not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.68no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGT215Picasso
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores96192
Core clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1301 MHz
Number of transistors727 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate16.0015.61
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS0.4996 TFLOPS
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs84
TMUs3212

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsHDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVINo outputs
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 10 Watt

Picasso Embedded has a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 180% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 250M and Radeon Picasso Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 250M is a notebook card while Radeon Picasso Embedded is a desktop one.


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