ATI Radeon 9250 vs GeForce GT 525M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1137	1605
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.57	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	GF108	RV280
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	5 January 2011 (15 years ago)	1 March 2004 (21 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	no data
Core clock speed	475 MHz	240 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.600	0.96
Floating-point processing power	0.1824 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	16	4
L1 Cache	128 KB	no data
L2 Cache	256 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).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Width	no data	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	DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s	3.2 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

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

+

-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 API	8.1
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

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:

900p	13	no data
Full HD	21	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 January 2011	1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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