GeForce GTS 250 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 250
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
G92B
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
738 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
128
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
6
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
unknown
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
47.2 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80