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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M: specs and benchmarks
Combined performance score
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTS 250M sales 15 June 2009. This is a GT2xx architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 28 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.43% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTS 250M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | 949 | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Value for money | 0.09 | |
Architecture | GT2xx (2009−2012) | |
GPU code name | N10E-GE | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 15 June 2009 (14 years old) | |
Current price | $230 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTS 250M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTS 250M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
CUDA cores | 96 | |
Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 727 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 28 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 16.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 240 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Gigaflops | 360 |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce GTS 250M's 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 size | large | |
Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
SLI options | + | |
MXM Type | MXM 3.0 Type-B |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTS 250M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
Memory clock speed | Up to 2000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTS 250M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI | |
HDMI | + | |
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTS 250M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
Power management | 8.0 |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTS 250M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | |
Shader Model | 4.1 | |
OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Vulkan | N/A | |
CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTS 250M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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%
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good GeForce GTS 250M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
Full HD | 28 |
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 1−2 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 |
Full HD
High Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 1−2 | |
Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 7−8 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 4−5 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
Battlefield 5 | 0−1 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 4−5 |
1440p
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
Hitman 3 | 4−5 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 5−6 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 |
4K
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
Hitman 3 | 2−3 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 |
4K
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 0−1 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 |
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTS 250M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTS 250M is Radeon R7 M265, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTS 250M according to our statistics.