GeForce GTS 250M and GeForce GT 520MX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250M vs GeForce GT 520MX
GeForce GTS 250M
570
GeForce GT 520MX
288
GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce GT 520MX
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
N12P-GVR
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
May 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
900 MHz
CUDA cores
96
48
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
172.8 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
48
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
7.2 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.5
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
-
+
Power management
8.0
-