GeForce GTX 480 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
GF100
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
April 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
6
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
unknown
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80