AMD Radeon RX 540X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking541not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money2.40no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameN17S-G2Polaris 12
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date20 February 2019 (5 years old)21 March 2018 (6 years old)
Current price$1165 $199
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 cores384512
Core clock speed1518 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1582 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors1,800 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10/25 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate24.9135.97

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce MX250 and Radeon RX 540X 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 sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x4PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed7000 MHz6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth48.06 GB/s112.0 GB/s
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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

Technologies

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

FreeSyncno data+

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA6.1no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 20 February 2019 21 March 2018
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 50 Watt

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