NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 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

640 points

9% slightly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1039 points

1155 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.74 points

102.79 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9734 points

11144 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10197 points

11550 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9939 points

10627 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9326 points

11127 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9178 points

9592 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

937 MHz

1020 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1085 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

80.19 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

10 W

650% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.61 Gigapixels/s

17.36 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.91 Gigatexels/s

43.4 Gigatexels/s

74% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

640

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2015 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 MX250 vs GeForce GTX 860M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce MX250 beats the GeForce GTX 860M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 860M has a slightly 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 860M also has a slightly 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 860M at 75 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 MX250 is better than the GeForce GTX 860M.