NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X2500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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Mobility Radeon X2500

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

-

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.840 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.840 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

M66

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

3.0

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