GeForce GTX 960 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
GM206
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
April 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
6
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
1.1.80
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-