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GeForce GTS 250M

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 3.45% (420th of 667)

Based on 273 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0CA9 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Poor: 3%Average: 3.45% Great: 4%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M averaged 96.5% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 4.77fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 3.48fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M is just 0.99%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 5.12fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 2.05fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 273 samples)
Rank 4203.45%
Min Avg Max
3.88 Lighting 4.77 5.2
2.4 Reflection 5.12 6.2
1.71 Parallax 2.05 2.2
3.87% 3.98 fps
Min Avg Max
4.61 MRender 5.36 5.95
3.3 Gravity 3.48 3.57
2.3 Splatting 2.81 3.09
3.03% 3.88 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.65% Terrible
Lighting 5.2
Reflection 2.9
Parallax 2.6
4% 3.57 fps
MRender 5.1
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.5
3% 3.7 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.44
3.49% Terrible
Lighting 4.8
Reflection 2.6
Parallax 2.9
4% 3.43 fps
MRender 5.2
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.4
3% 3.7 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.4% Terrible
Lighting 4.6
Reflection 2.8
Parallax 2.2
4% 3.2 fps
MRender 5.1
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 4.3
3% 4.3 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.32% Terrible
Lighting 4.4
Reflection 2.9
Parallax 2.2
4% 3.17 fps
MRender 5.3
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.5
3% 3.77 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.22% Terrible
Lighting 4.2
Reflection 2.9
Parallax 2
3% 3.03 fps
MRender 5.2
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.5
3% 3.73 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.74
1.44% Terrible
Lighting 0.1
Reflection 3.2
Parallax 2.3
0% 1.87 fps
MRender 5.1
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.3
3% 3.63 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 46,958,558 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 273 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Toshiba(1179 FF50) 52% 3% ± 0%
Acer(1025 026B) 22% 3% ± 0%
MSI(1462 102F) 20% 3% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0728) 2% 4% ± 0%
Acer(1025 019E) 1% 4% ± 0%
Device(1642 3942) 1% 4% ± 0%
Acer(1025 021E) 1% 4% ± 0%
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Typical GeForce GTS 250M Builds (Compare 167 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 5%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 49%
Yacht
Workstation
Workstation 5%
Tree trunk

System: Toshiba Qosmio X500

CPU
Core i7 Q 720Intel  $220Bench 51%, 16,400 samples91x
Core i7 Q 740Intel  $250Bench 53%, 11,501 samples56x
Core i7-2630QMIntel  $199Bench 58%, 37,566 samples13x
GPU
GeForce GTS 250MNvidiaBench 3%, 273 samples50x
SSD
A400 480GBKingston  $44Bench 75%, 183,157 samples3x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 106%, 649,738 samples3x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $89Bench 102%, 826,401 samples3x
RAM
HMT351S6AFR8C-G7 2x4GBHynixBench 29%, 324 samples23x
M471B5273BH1-CF8 2x4GBSamsungBench 28%, 452 samples13x
M471B5273CH0-CF8 2x4GBSamsungBench 29%, 551 samples12x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 51% - Above average Total price: $264

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