NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 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 570

ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1464 MHz vs 460 MHz
23.9x more texture fill rate: 43.9 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
5x more maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 256 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 800 MHz
47.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3924 vs 82
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 470 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 December 2010 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed	1464 MHz vs 460 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.9 billion / sec vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1900 MHz (3800 data rate) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3924 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark	470 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3924

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

470

235

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
PassMark - G3D Mark	3924	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	470	235
Geekbench - OpenCL	13251
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	36.849
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	736.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	40.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	122.953
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570	ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R500
Code name	GF110	M66
Launch date	7 December 2010	1 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$349
Place in performance rating	734	735
Price now	$99.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	48.11
Technical info
Core clock speed	1464 MHz	460 MHz
CUDA cores	480
Floating-point performance	1,405.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C
Pipelines	480	12
Texture fill rate	43.9 billion / sec	1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	219 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	157 million
Boost clock speed		460 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0 x 16
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	3-way
Supplementary power connectors	Two 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.2	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit	400 Bit
Memory clock speed	1900 MHz (3800 data rate)	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	64 / 128
Shared memory		yes
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround
Powerplay 6.0