NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

221% significantly better overall score

640 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

217% significantly higher Blender score

89.74 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9734 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

937 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

10 W

1100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

393% significantly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

393% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

200% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

302nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce MX250 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce MX250 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the GeForce MX250.