ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 460 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 460 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 235 vs 232
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 June 2007 vs 1 August 2006
Core clock speed 460 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed 460 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 235 vs 232

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 148 vs 82
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 5.4 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 148 vs 82

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
82
148
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
235
232
Name ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
PassMark - G3D Mark 82 148
PassMark - G2D Mark 235 232

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Essentials

Architecture R500 Curie
Code name M66 G73
Launch date 1 June 2007 1 August 2006
Place in performance rating 735 736
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 460 MHz 450 MHz
Core clock speed 460 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 12 12
Texture fill rate 1.84 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 157 million 177 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 400 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type 64 / 128 128
Shared memory yes 0

Technologies

Powerplay 6.0