GeForce MX230 vs ATI Radeon 9250

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1541	655
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	32.60
Architecture	Rage 7 (2001−2006)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	RV280	GP108
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	1 March 2004 (20 years ago)	21 February 2019 (6 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	no data	256
Core clock speed	240 MHz	1519 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1582 MHz
Number of transistors	36 million	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	0.96	25.31
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.81 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	16
TMUs	4	16

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	no data	medium sized
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	1-slot	no data
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	DDR	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	200 MHz	1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB/s	48.06 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

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

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

No outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus

-

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API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	8.1	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	no data	6.4
OpenGL	1.4	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	-	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

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:

Full HD

no data

21

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 March 2004	21 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	150 nm	14 nm

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