GeForce 9650M GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1164
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.67
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV620G84
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 February 2009 (15 years ago)13 March 2008 (16 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 cores4032
Core clock speed594 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors181 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt29 Watt
Texture fill rate2.37610.00
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

ATI HD 4250 122
9650M GS 270
+121%

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.

ATI HD 4250 227
9650M GS 1786
+687%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2009 13 March 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 29 Watt

ATI HD 4250 has an age advantage of 11 months, a 45.5% more advanced lithography process, and 16% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4250 and GeForce 9650M GS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4250 is a desktop card while GeForce 9650M GS is a notebook one.


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