NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 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 965M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 944 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 40x more texture fill rate: 73.6 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
  • 85.3x more pipelines: 1024 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 46.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3794 vs 82
  • Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 337 vs 235
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 January 2015 vs 1 June 2007
Core clock speed 944 MHz vs 460 MHz
Boost clock speed 950 MHz vs 460 MHz
Texture fill rate 73.6 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3794 vs 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 337 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3794
82
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
337
235
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
PassMark - G3D Mark 3794 82
PassMark - G2D Mark 337 235
Geekbench - OpenCL 14528
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 720.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 57.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 223.296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1831

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R500
Code name GM204 M66
Launch date 9 January 2015 1 June 2007
Place in performance rating 730 733
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz 460 MHz
Core clock speed 944 MHz 460 MHz
CUDA cores 1024
Floating-point performance 2,355 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1024 12
Texture fill rate 73.6 GTexel / s 1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 80 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 400 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 64 / 128
Shared memory 0 yes

Technologies

Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Powerplay 6.0