NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 967 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 58.9x more texture fill rate: 108.3 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
  • 112x more pipelines: 1344 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
  • 42.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3450 vs 82
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 276 vs 235
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 March 2014 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed 941 MHz vs 460 MHz
Boost clock speed 967 MHz vs 460 MHz
Texture fill rate 108.3 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3450 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 276 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3450
82
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
276
235
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
PassMark - G3D Mark 3450 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 276 235
Geekbench - OpenCL 12736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 34.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 960.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 59.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 81.753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1336

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R500
Code name GK104 M66
Launch date 12 March 2014 1 June 2007
Place in performance rating 733 735
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 967 MHz 460 MHz
Core clock speed 941 MHz 460 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,599 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1344 12
Texture fill rate 108.3 GTexel / s 1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 120.0 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 400 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 64 / 128
Shared memory 0 yes
Standard memory configuration GDDR5
Memory clock speed 800 MHz

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA
Powerplay 6.0