Extreme Graphics 2: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
Intel started Extreme Graphics 2 sales 3 December 2003. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Generation 2.0 architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Extreme Graphics 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 2.0 (2002−2003) | |
| GPU code name | Montara | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 December 2003 (21 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Extreme Graphics 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Extreme Graphics 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 200 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 266 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.27 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 1 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 1 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Extreme Graphics 2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Extreme Graphics 2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Shared memory | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Extreme Graphics 2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Extreme Graphics 2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Extreme Graphics 2 according to our statistics.
