HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1) vs GeForce 210

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2012
HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210

Summary

Reasons to consider HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce 210

HWBench recommends GeForce 210

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)GeForce 210
GPU NameIvy Bridge GT1 ()vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process22 nmvs40 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors392 millionvs260 million
Shaders6vs16
Compute Units0vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs1vs4
TMUs1vs8

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)GeForce 210
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)GeForce 210
TDP0 wattsvs31 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2012vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.65 GP/s
  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.65 GT/s
  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    7.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better