Mobility Radeon 9000 vs HD 6250

Primary Details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	Zacate	M9
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	16 November 2010 (13 years ago)	1 September 2002 (21 year ago)
Current price	$225	$17.99

Detailed Specifications

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	80	5
Core clock speed	280 MHz	1 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	240 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	5.200	0.96
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	no data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6250 and Mobility Radeon 9000 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.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	3.2 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API Compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.1
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.4
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & Cons Summary

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Recency	16 November 2010	1 September 2002
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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