GeForce GTS 250M and Radeon HD 6530M - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250M
Radeon HD 6530M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
Capilano-LP
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
November 2010
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
400.0 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
400
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.00
9.000
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-