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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.74 points
697.32 points
677% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9326 points
40962 points
339% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

24
64
166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
32
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 586
216th of 586

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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the GeForce MX250.

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