HD Graphics 2500 and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2500
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge GT1
R600
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
13.8 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
392 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
320
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
11.89
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.0
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.80
N/A