NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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

1882 points

194% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS

49 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

24 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

33 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

18 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.74 points

697.32 points

677% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9326 points

40962 points

339% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9178 points

37410 points

307% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

937 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1038 MHz

1537 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

96 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.61 Gigapixels/s

49.18 Gigapixels/s

196% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.91 Gigatexels/s

98.37 Gigatexels/s

294% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2048

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce MX250 vs RTX A500 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the RTX A500 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce MX250 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX250 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. Despite this, the RTX A500 Laptop has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A500 Laptop over the GeForce MX250.