GeForce 7900 GT and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce 7900 GT
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
G71
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2006
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
450 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
6
Power consumption (TDP)
48 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
10.80
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80