NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce MX250

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +233%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce MX250

0.797 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970M +113%

2283

GeForce MX250

1071

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M +188%

208

GeForce MX250

72

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M +145%

54

GeForce MX250

22

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce MX250

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.61 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.91 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.46 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

797.2 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.91 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP108B

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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