GeForce MX250 and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce MX250

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17S-G2

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

February 2019

March 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1582 MHz

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

1518 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

10/25 Watt

60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

24.91

98.37

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3