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GeForce GTS 250M

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 3.44% (443rd of 689)

Based on 294 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0CA9 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Poor: 2%Average: 3.44% Great: 4%

Popular builds with this GPU

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) 4.76fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 3.49fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M is just 1.24%. 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) 5.05fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 2.05fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 294 samples)
Rank 4433.44%
Min Avg Max
3.88 Lighting 4.76 5.2
2.4 Reflection 5.05 6.7
1.7 Parallax 2.05 2.2
3.83% 3.96 fps
Min Avg Max
4.53 MRender 5.34 5.95
3.3 Gravity 3.49 3.57
2.3 Splatting 2.78 3.09
3.07% 3.87 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Acer(1025 019E) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
4.51% Terrible
Lighting 5.3
Reflection 2.2
Parallax 2.2
4% 3.23 fps
MRender 5.6
Gravity 6
Splatting 2.5
5% 4.7 fps
MSI(1462 102F) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 340.52
3.47% Terrible
Lighting 4.8
Reflection 6.7
Parallax 2.2
4% 4.57 fps
MRender 4.9
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.5
3% 3.63 fps
Acer(1025 026B) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.47% Terrible
Lighting 4.8
Reflection 8
Parallax 1.7
4% 4.83 fps
MRender 4.9
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.5
3% 3.63 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 341.74
3.39% Terrible
Lighting 4.6
Reflection 2.7
Parallax 2
4% 3.1 fps
MRender 5.1
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 1.8
3% 3.47 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.3% Terrible
Lighting 4.5
Reflection 2.5
Parallax 1.7
4% 2.9 fps
MRender 4.3
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.1
3% 3.3 fps
Acer(1025 026B) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
3.29% Terrible
Lighting 4.4
Reflection 6.3
Parallax 2.2
4% 4.3 fps
MRender 4.8
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 2.5
3% 3.6 fps
Toshiba(1179 FF50) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.01
2.85% Terrible
Lighting 3.5
Reflection 3
Parallax 1.7
3% 2.73 fps
MRender 4.1
Gravity 3.5
Splatting 1.7
3% 3.1 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 56,693,227 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 294 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Toshiba(1179 FF50) 53% 3% ± 0%
Acer(1025 026B) 21% 3% ± 0%
MSI(1462 102F) 20% 3% ± 0%
Acer(1025 019E) 2% 4% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0728) 2% 4% ± 0%
Device(1642 3942) 1% 4% ± 0%
Acer(1025 021E) 1% 4% ± 0%
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Gaming
Gaming 5%
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Desktop
Desktop 50%
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Workstation
Workstation 5%
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System: Toshiba Qosmio X500

CPU
Core i7 Q 720Intel  $220Bench 52%, 12,789 samples40x
Core i7 Q 740Intel  $250Bench 54%, 13,026 samples27x
Core i7 Q 840Intel  $280Bench 56%, 1,341 samples2x
GPU
GeForce GTS 250MNvidiaBench 3%, 294 samples19x
SSD
BX500 240GBCrucial  $23Bench 56%, 142,801 samples4x
A400 240GBKingston  $20Bench 66%, 424,288 samples4x
HG5d Q Series 128GBToshibaBench 80%, 2,624 samples2x
RAM
M471B5273CH0-CF8 2x4GBSamsungBench 29%, 611 samples8x
HMT351S6AFR8C-G7 2x4GBHynixBench 29%, 370 samples6x
M471B5273DH0-CH9 80CE M471B5273CH0-CH9 8GBUnknownBench 31%, 402 samples4x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 52% - Above average Total price: $243

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