ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 85W)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
648 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
0.144 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
+753%
1.229 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Jan 2012
Radeon R600
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
768
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1229 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
85W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
Tahiti
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
