NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 vs Intel HD Graphics 2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1 and Intel HD Graphics 2500 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

Intel HD Graphics 2500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 650 MHz
5.6x more texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 1.15 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 48 vs 6
11.3x better floating-point performance: 155.5 gflops vs 13.8 gflops

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 1.15 GTexel / s
Pipelines	48 vs 6
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops vs 13.8 gflops

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 2500

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 40 nm

Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 2500

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1	Intel HD Graphics 2500
Geekbench - OpenCL		249
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCIe x1	Intel HD Graphics 2500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Generation 7.0
Code name	GF119	Ivy Bridge GT1
Launch date	2 April 2012	1 April 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	1706
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops	13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	22 nm
Pipelines	48	6
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	1.15 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	392 million
Boost clock speed		1150 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.1 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		1