HD Graphics 2500 and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2500
GeForce 6500
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge GT1
NV44 A2
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
October 2005
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
13.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
392 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
-
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
-
Texture fill rate
6.900
1.600
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
128 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
8.512 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.0
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.1.80
N/A