ATI Radeon 7500 vs GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking561not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.83no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameGK104RV200
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date8 November 2013 (11 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 years ago)

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 cores1536no data
Core clock speed771 MHz290 MHz
Boost clock speed797 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate102.01.740
Floating-point processing power2.448 TFLOPSno data
ROPs322
TMUs1286

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB64 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz230 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s7.36 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 November 2013 14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 23 Watt

GTX 780M Mac Edition has an age advantage of 12 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 7500, on the other hand, has 430.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition and Radeon 7500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon 7500 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
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