GeForce MX250 vs GeForce GT 520M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX250 's Advantages
Boost Clock1038MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 12W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX250
+461%
797
GeForce GT 520M
142
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce MX250
+1126%
1079
GeForce GT 520M
88
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
937 MHz
Base Clock
-
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
1
384
Shading Units
48
24
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.480 GPixel/s
24.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.920 GTexel/s
12.46 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
797.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
142.1 GFLOPS
24.91 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
12W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108B
GPU Name
GF119
-
GPU Variant
N12P-GV-B-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
