ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 vs NVIDIA NVS 300

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameGT218RS690
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date8 January 2011 (13 years old)30 August 2006 (17 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data
Current price$101 (0.9x MSRP)no data

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 cores16no data
Core clock speed520 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors260 million120 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.1601.600
Floating-point performance39.36 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on NVS 300 and Radeon Xpress 1250 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1580 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors1x DMS-59No outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.2no 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%

NVS 300 121
+188%
ATI Xpress 1250 42

NVS 300 outperforms Radeon Xpress 1250 by 188% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 8 January 2011 30 August 2006
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB System Shared
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm

We couldn't decide between NVS 300 and Radeon Xpress 1250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 300 is a workstation card while Radeon Xpress 1250 is a notebook one.


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