GeForce MX250 vs ATI VGA Wonder XL24

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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
ArchitectureWonder (1990−1992)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name28800-6GP108B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date16 March 1992 (32 years ago)20 February 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

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 coresno data384
Core clock speed10 MHz937 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology800 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.91
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7972 TFLOPS
ROPs116
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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x4
Width1-slotno data
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 typeDRAMGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 MB2 GB
Memory bus width32 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed10 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth40 MB/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 Connectors1x VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 March 1992 20 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 800 nm 14 nm

GeForce MX250 has an age advantage of 26 years, a 204700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 5614.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between VGA Wonder XL24 and GeForce MX250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that VGA Wonder XL24 is a desktop card while GeForce MX250 is a notebook one.


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ATI VGA Wonder XL24
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