ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1320 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +987%

2.088 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2007

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

3

-

1440

Shading Units

120

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

302W

TDP

45W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

RV630

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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