AMD Radeon HD 8250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated1168
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameNB9PTemash
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (15 years old)1 June 2013 (10 years old)
Current price$1279 $501
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16128
CUDA cores16no data
Core clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors314 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt8 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0003.200
Floating-point performance40 gflopsno data
Gigaflops60no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 9500M G and Radeon HD 8250 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP

Memory

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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

9500M G 121
HD 8250 217
+79.3%

Radeon HD 8250 outperforms GeForce 9500M G by 79% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 3 June 2008 1 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB System Shared
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 8 Watt

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