ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages
88 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 47W)
GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
+89%
144
GeForce 8600 GT
76
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
120
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G84
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0