ATI Radeon 7500 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Place in the ranking	510	1522
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.70	no data
Power efficiency	2.69	0.03
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	GF110	RV200
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	29 November 2011 (13 years ago)	14 August 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$289	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	448	no data
Core clock speed	732 MHz	290 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	40.99	1.740
Floating-point processing power	1.312 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	40	2
TMUs	56	6

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	230 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	7.36 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	7.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.23	0.01
Recency	29 November 2011	14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	23 Watt

GTX 560 Ti 448 has a 82200% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 1900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 7500, on the other hand, has 813% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon 7500 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.