AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
823
TeraScale 3
Architecture
GT2xx
Cayman
Code name
GT215
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
15 June 2009 (12 years ago)
$17.44
Price now
$230
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Value for money
0.09
Cayman
GPU code name
N10E-GE
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
96
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Core clock speed
500 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
727 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
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Texture fill rate
16.00
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Floating-point performance
240 gflops
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CUDA cores
96
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Gigaflops
360
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2,640 million
Number of transistors
727 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
28 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M.

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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Laptop size
large
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
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MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
+
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HybridPower
+
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Power management
8.0
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PowerMizer 8.0
+
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MXM 3.0 Type-B
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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Shader Model
4.1
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $230)

More pipelines (1536 vs 96)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

2.49% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M .

AMD Cayman versus NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cayman
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M