Extreme Graphics 2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Extreme Graphics 2 sales 3 December 2003. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Generation 2.0 architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Extreme Graphics 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 2.0 (2002−2003) | |
| GPU code name | Montara | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 December 2003 (20 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Extreme Graphics 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Extreme Graphics 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 200 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 266 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.27 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 1 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 1 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Extreme Graphics 2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Extreme Graphics 2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Shared memory | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Extreme Graphics 2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Extreme Graphics 2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Extreme Graphics 2 according to our statistics.
