Radeon HD 6250 and GeForce GT 420 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6250
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Zacate
GF108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2010
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
280 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
104 gflops
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
48
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.200
2.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A