Intel HD Graphics 2500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 2500 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 2500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 65 nm
Launch date 1 April 2012 vs 1 February 2008
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

  • 29.2x more texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 1.15 GTexel / s
  • 18.7x more pipelines: 112 vs 6
  • 24.3x better floating-point performance: 336.0 gflops vs 13.8 gflops
Texture fill rate 33.6 GTexel / s vs 1.15 GTexel / s
Pipelines 112 vs 6
Floating-point performance 336.0 gflops vs 13.8 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Name Intel HD Graphics 2500 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL 249
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel HD Graphics 2500 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture Generation 7.0 Tesla
Code name Ivy Bridge GT1 G92
Launch date 1 April 2012 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating 1710 not rated
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1150 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 13.8 gflops 336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 6 112
Texture fill rate 1.15 GTexel / s 33.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 392 million 754 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.1 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.0 3.3

Memory

Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 256 Bit
Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB / s
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR3