
GeForce GTS 250M and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250M vs HD Graphics 500
GeForce GTS 250M
570
HD Graphics 500
307
GeForce GTS 250M
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
September 2016
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
700 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
144.0 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
12
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
9.000
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.97
Power management
8.0
-
Quick Sync
-
+