GeForce MX250 vs Quadro K200M

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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 data42.78
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGK107GP108B
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date22 August 2014 (10 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 cores192384
Core clock speed850 MHz937 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate13.6024.91
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.7972 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1624

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
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s48.06 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.06.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 August 2014 20 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 10 Watt

GeForce MX250 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 250% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K200M and GeForce MX250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K200M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce MX250 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K200M
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