GeForce MX250 vs PlayStation 4 GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated579
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data42.76
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameLiverpoolGP108B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date24 November 2013 (11 years ago)20 February 2019 (5 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 cores1152384
Core clock speed800 MHz937 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate57.6024.91
Floating-point processing power1.843 TFLOPS0.7972 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs7224

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x4
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s48.06 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1*12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.11.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 November 2013 20 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 10 Watt

PlayStation 4 GPU has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GeForce MX250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between PlayStation 4 GPU and GeForce MX250. We've got no test results to judge.


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