GeForce MX250 vs Radeon HD 8950M

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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 nameSaturnGP108B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 May 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 cores768384
Core clock speed1075 MHz937 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate51.6024.91
Floating-point processing power1.651 TFLOPS0.7972 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4824

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 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 amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth88 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.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2013 20 February 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 10 Watt

GeForce MX250 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8950M and GeForce MX250. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8950M
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