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GeForce GTS 250M

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Release date ≤ Q2 2014.

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Average Bench: 3.83% (379th of 597)

Based on 126 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 0CA9 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Poor: 3%Average: 3.83% Great: 4%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M averaged 96.1% 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) 14.1fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 10.4fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M is just 1.47%. 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) 13.9fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 6.63fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 126 samples)
Rank 3793.83%
Min Avg Max
9.03 Lighting 14.1 15.5
8.28 Reflection 13.9 15.5
4.71 Parallax 6.42 6.7
3.53% 11.5 fps
Min Avg Max
6.24 MRender 11.2 12.5
8.88 Gravity 10.4 10.6
5.5 Splatting 6.63 7.1
4.03% 9.4 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Acer(1025 026B) 1GB
Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.1
3.97% Terrible
Lighting 15.1
Reflection 14.7
Parallax 6.6
4% 12.1 fps
MRender 11.7
Gravity 10.4
Splatting 6.9
4% 9.67 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 12,710,213 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 126 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
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Toshiba(1179 FF50) 48% 4% ± 0%
Acer(1025 026B) 28% 4% ± 1%
MSI(1462 102F) 19% 4% ± 0%
Acer(1025 019E) 2% 4% ± 0%
Acer(1025 021E) 2% 4% ± 0%
Device(1642 3942) 2% 4% ± 0%
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Typical GeForce GTS 250M Builds (Compare 141 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 12%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 33%
Sail boat
Workstation
Workstation 21%
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System: Toshiba Qosmio X500

CPU
Core i7 Q 720Intel  $100Bench 28%, 7,313 samples73x
Core i7 Q 740Intel  $150Bench 30%, 5,174 samples56x
Core i5 M 430IntelBench 29%, 6,270 samples5x
GPU
GeForce GTS 250MNvidiaBench 4%, 126 samples31x
SSD
840 Pro 256GBSamsung  $289Bench 93%, 24,722 samples5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $67Bench 105%, 334,073 samples4x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung  $163Bench 104%, 52,215 samples3x
RAM
HMT351S6AFR8C-G7 2x4GBHynixBench 32%, 103 samples28x
M471B5273CH0-CF8 2x4GBSamsungBench 31%, 202 samples17x
M471B5673FH0-CF8 2x2GBSamsungBench 25%, 2,569 samples13x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 41% - Average Total price: $389

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