AMD Radeon HD 8250 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

General info

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

Place in performance rating	1117	1118
Architecture	G7x (2005−2007)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	G70M	Temash
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	29 September 2005 (17 years old)	1 June 2013 (9 years old)
Current price	$207	$501

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 cores	32	128
Core clock speed	8 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	440 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	302 million	1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	28 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)	65 Watt	8 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.56	3.200

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on GeForce Go 7800 GTX 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 size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory

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

Memory type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	35.2 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	3.0	6.3
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.

Gaming performance

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

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	29 September 2005	1 June 2013
Pipelines / CUDA cores	24	128
Chip lithography	110 nm	28 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)	65 Watt	8 Watt

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