ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 60W)
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
+54%
144
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
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
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/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
5.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G84
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GPU Variant
G84-400-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
