GeForce2 MX vs Radeon HD 6250

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1456	1615
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.94	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Cedar	NV11 A2
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	31 January 2011 (15 years ago)	28 June 2000 (26 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	80	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	175 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	5.200	0.7
Floating-point processing power	0.104 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	2
TMUs	8	4
L1 Cache	16 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	32 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	2.656 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	7.0
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.2
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

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no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	31 January 2011	28 June 2000
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	32 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	180 nm