AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points

640 points

7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1039 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

89.74 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

10197 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

9939 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

9326 points

0.32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

937 MHz

212% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

92% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

10 W

350% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

16.61 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

156% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

33% slightly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly 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 586

302nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce MX250 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX250 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX250 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 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 Radeon Vega 8 at 45 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce MX250 is better than the Radeon Vega 8.