GeForce2 MX vs HD Graphics 2500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1196	1545
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Generation 7.0 (2012−2013)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Ivy Bridge GT1	NV11 A2
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 April 2012 (13 years ago)	28 June 2000 (24 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 cores	48	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	175 MHz
Boost clock speed	1150 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	392 million	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	no data
Texture fill rate	6.900	0.7
Floating-point processing power	0.1104 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	1	2
TMUs	6	4

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 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	System Shared	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	32 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	2.656 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data

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

No outputs

1x VGA

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (11_0)	7.0
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.0	1.2
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.80	N/A

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

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no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 April 2012	28 June 2000
Chip lithography	22 nm	180 nm

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