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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M | ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 3450 | 82 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 276 | 235 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 12539 | |
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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 9.0c |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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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 |
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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 |