HD Graphics 2000 vs ATI Radeon X1900 XTX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1216
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Generation 6.0 (2011)
GPU code nameR580Sandy Bridge GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date24 January 2006 (18 years ago)1 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

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 coresno data48
Core clock speed650 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1350 MHz
Number of transistors384 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)135 Wattunknown
Texture fill rate10.408.100
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1296 TFLOPS
ROPs161
TMUs166

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed775 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth49.6 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)3.1
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 January 2006 1 February 2011
Chip lithography 90 nm 32 nm

HD Graphics 2000 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 181.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1900 XTX and HD Graphics 2000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1900 XTX is a desktop card while HD Graphics 2000 is a notebook one.


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