GeForce MX250 vs Quadro P3000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated573
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data45.09
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameN17E-Q1 Max-QGP108B
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 September 2017 (7 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 cores1280384
Core clock speed1075 MHz937 MHz
Boost clock speed1240 MHz1038 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.91
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7972 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data24

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 sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB2 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed7008 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48.06 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2017 20 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 10 Watt

P3000 Max-Q has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GeForce MX250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P3000 Max-Q and GeForce MX250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P3000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while GeForce MX250 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P3000 Max-Q
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