ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
460x more core clock speed: 460 MHz vs 1 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 460 MHz vs 350 MHz
6x more pipelines: 12 vs 2
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 82 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2007 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	460 MHz vs 1 MHz
Boost clock speed	460 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	12 vs 2
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	82 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 235

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	239 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

235

239

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
PassMark - G3D Mark	82	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	235	239

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Essentials
Architecture	R500
Code name	M66	C67
Launch date	1 June 2007	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	733	736
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	460 MHz	350 MHz
Core clock speed	460 MHz	1 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	12	2
Texture fill rate	1.84 GTexel / s
Transistor count	157 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0c	shared Memory
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	400 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	64 / 128
Shared memory	yes	1
Technologies
Powerplay 6.0