Tesla M4 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 efficiency3.55no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGT215GM206
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)10 November 2015 (8 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 cores961024
Core clock speed500 MHz872 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1072 MHz
Number of transistors727 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate16.0068.61
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS2.195 TFLOPS
Gigaflops360no data
ROPs832
TMUs3264

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 2000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s88 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Model4.16.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA+5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 10 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 50 Watt

GTS 250M has 78.6% lower power consumption.

Tesla M4, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 250M and Tesla M4. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTS 250M is a notebook card while Tesla M4 is a workstation one.


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