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| | GeForce GTS 250M vs GT 720M |
Released June, 2009
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M
- 500 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
by Ryan-Shrout (Jun, 2013)AMD definitely still has a feather in its cap with the game bundles; the Radeon HD 7950 Boost will come with Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
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Released April, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GT 720M
- 625 MHz
- 2 GB DDR3
by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | vs | 12.8 GB/s | More than 4x higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 3,200 MHz | vs | 1,600 MHz | 2x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| More texture mapping units | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| Slightly higher texture rate | 16 GTexel/s | vs | 10 GTexel/s | 60% higher texture rate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 625 MHz | vs | 500 MHz | 25% higher clock speed | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
Features Key features of the GeForce GTS 250M vs GT 720M
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
GeForce GTS 250M
51.2 GB/s
GeForce GT 720M
12.8 GB/s
GeForce GTS 250M | by Chris-Angelini (Jun, 2013)What you're going to see in the benchmarks is that some workloads tend to favor shader count, others react to the GPU's clock rate, and a third group enjoys memory bandwidth.
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
GeForce GTS 250M
4 GPixel/s
GeForce GT 720M
2.5 GPixel/s
GeForce GTS 250M | by Ryan-Shrout (Jun, 2013)GK104 has done a fantastic job in every field and market segment that NVIDIA has tossed it into with solid performance and even better performance per watt than the competition.
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
GeForce GTS 250M
16 GTexel/s
GeForce GT 720M
10 GTexel/s
GeForce GTS 250M | by Syed-Muhammad-Usman-Pirzada (Oct, 2013)I don’t need to tell you how nice the aesthetics on this mini-ATX machine are, looking like something out of an Iron Man movie, the M8 delivers both performance and beauty.
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
GeForce GTS 250M
240 GFLOPS
GeForce GT 720M
240 GFLOPS
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
GeForce GTS 250M | by Dustin-Sklavos (Mar, 2012)But given that the Kepler-based GK107 powering a good chunk of the 600M series possesses only a quarter of the shader power of its big brother, we expect another Kepler GPU will fill in the gap.
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
GeForce GTS 250M | by Dustin-Sklavos (Mar, 2012)Unfortunately it's also difficult to determine how many ROPs or TMUs are powering it, but the most recent version of GPU-Z pegs it at 16 ROPs which would theoretically work out to 64 TMUs.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu | GeForce GTS 250M | vs | GT 720M |
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| GPU brand | Nvidia | Nvidia | |
| GPU name | GT215 | GF117 | |
| Market | Laptop | Laptop | |
| Clock speed | 500 MHz | 625 MHz | |
| Is dual GPU | No | No | |
| Reference card | None | None | |
raw performance | |||
| Shading units | 96 | 96 | |
| Texture mapping units | 32 | 16 | |
| Render output processors | 8 | 8 | |
| Pixel rate | 4 GPixel/s | 2.5 GPixel/s | |
| Texture rate | 16 GTexel/s | 10 GTexel/s | |
| Floating-point performance | 240 GFLOPS | 240 GFLOPS | |
memory | GeForce GTS 250M | vs | GT 720M |
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| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | 800 MHz | |
| Effective memory clock speed | 3,200 MHz | 1,600 MHz | |
| Memory bus | 128 bit | 64 bit | |
| Memory | 1,024 MB | 2,048 MB | |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR3 | |
| Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | 12.8 GB/s | |
noise and power | |||
| TDP | 28W | 33W | |





