Mobility Radeon X2500 and GeForce 9600 GS OEM - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon X2500
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
M66
G94
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
460 MHz
-
Core clock speed
5 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
157 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
17
48
Texture fill rate
1.840
12.00
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
768 MB
Memory bus width
64 / 128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
48 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A