NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 460 MHz
22.8x more texture fill rate: 42 billion / sec vs 1.84 GTexel / s
40x more pipelines: 480 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 800 MHz
50x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4103 vs 82
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 447 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 March 2010 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 460 MHz
Texture fill rate	42 billion / sec vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4103 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark	447 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4103

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

447

235

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
PassMark - G3D Mark	4103	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	447	235
Geekbench - OpenCL	13141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	34.483
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	706.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	106.875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3320
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3320
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	R500
Code name	GF100	M66
Launch date	26 March 2010	1 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	738	740
Price now	$71.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	61.35
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	460 MHz
CUDA cores	480
Floating-point performance	1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	480	12
Texture fill rate	42 billion / sec	1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	157 million
Boost clock speed		460 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way, 3-way
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin & 8-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.2	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.4 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	400 Bit
Memory clock speed	1848 MHz (3696 data rate)	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	64 / 128
Shared memory	0	yes
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
SLI
Powerplay 6.0