GeForce GTX 1060 vs HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2012
HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    5266%
  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 5166% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)


GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsIvy Bridge GT1 ()
Fab Process16 nmvs22 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs392 million
Shaders1280vs6
Compute Units10vs0
Core clock1506 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs48vs1
TMUs80vs1

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsSystem Shared
Bus Width192 bitvsSystem Shared
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vsSystem Shared
Memory Size6144 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
TDP120 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs1 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.65 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.65 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    7.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    330

Points (higher is better)