GeForce GTS 250M and Radeon R5 M230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTS 250M vs Radeon R5 M230
GeForce GTS 250M
570
Radeon R5 M230
424
GeForce GTS 250M
Radeon R5 M230
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N10E-GE
Jet / Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
January 2014
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
855 MHz
Compute units
-
5
Core clock speed
500 MHz
855 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
547.2 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
16.00
17.10
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
No outputs
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
Not Listed
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
+
Power management
8.0
-
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+