NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

823
Place in performance rating
255
GT2xx
Architecture
Terascale 2
GT215
Code name
Blackcomb XTX
Laptop
Type
Laptop
15 June 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
12 July 2011 (10 years ago)
$230
Price now
$170
0.09
Value for money
11.85
N10E-GE
GPU code name
Blackcomb XTX
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
2240
500 MHz
Core clock speed
715 MHz
727 million
Transistor count
2x1700 Million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
16.00
Texture fill rate
no data
240 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
96
CUDA cores
no data
360
Gigaflops
no data
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2240
727 million
Number of transistors
2x1700 Million
28 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
no data
large
Laptop size
large
+
SLI options
no data
PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
no data
MXM 3.0 Type-B
MXM Type
no data

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2x2 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
no data
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
51.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire, the size and number of monitors.

HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
Display Connectors
no data
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
HybridPower
no data
8.0
Power management
no data
+
PowerMizer 8.0
no data
+
MXM 3.0 Type-B
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
2.1
OpenGL
no data
N/A
Vulkan
no data
4.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M or AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

19.42% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($170 vs $230)

More pipelines (2240 vs 96)

More maximum RAM amount (2x2 GB vs 1 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M or AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire .

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M versus AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire performance benchmarks comparison

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