NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150, 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

3% slightly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS

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14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

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10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

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10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

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8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1039 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

990 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.74 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

86.10 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9734 points

9799 points

0.67% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10197 points

10459 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9939 points

0.73% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9867 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9326 points

10175 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9178 points

9382 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

937 MHz

1469 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1532 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

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64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

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48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

10 W

150% significantly lower TDP

25 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.61 Gigapixels/s

24.51 Gigapixels/s

47% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.91 Gigatexels/s

36.77 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

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384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 586

308th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2017 May

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 MX150 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce MX250 graphics card is better than the GeForce MX150 in our tests.

The GeForce MX150 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce MX150 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce MX150 at 25 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX250 over the GeForce MX150.