HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1) vs GeForce GTX 260

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2012
HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

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 GTX 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 260

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameIvy Bridge GT1 ()vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process22 nmvs65 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors392 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders6vs192
Compute Units0vs8
Core clock650 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs1vs28
TMUs1vs64

Memory Configuration

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR3
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs448 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)GeForce GTX 260
TDP0 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2012vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.65 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.65 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • HD Graphics 2500 (Ivy Bridge GT1)
    7.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better