ATI Mobility Radeon X2500 vs FirePro W4190M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking778not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameOpalM66
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date12 November 2015 (9 years ago)1 June 2007 (17 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 cores38417
Core clock speed825 MHz460 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz460 MHz
Number of transistors950 million157 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Texture fill rate21.601.840
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs244

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 sizedmedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s12.8 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 outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 November 2015 1 June 2007
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

W4190M has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4190M and Mobility Radeon X2500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4190M is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon X2500 is a mobile workstation one.


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