GeForce 8800 GTS 112 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameM66G80
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2007 (17 years ago)19 November 2007 (16 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 cores17112
Core clock speed460 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed460 MHzno data
Number of transistors157 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rate1.84028.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs420
TMUs428

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB640 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2007 19 November 2007
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 640 MB

8800 GTS 112 has an age advantage of 5 months, and a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X2500 and GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X2500 is a notebook card while GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon X2500
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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112
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