ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs GeForce GT 420 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages
72 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)
GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
+7%
144
GeForce GT 420 OEM
134
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Sep 2010
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
120
Shading Units
48
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.800 GTexel/s
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
134.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
11.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GF108
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GPU Variant
GF108-200-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
