ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
144
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+1788%
2720
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Jun 2010
Radeon R600
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
20
120
Shading Units
1600
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
Cypress
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
