ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +1108%

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

0.192 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2007

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

3

-

1600

Shading Units

120

80

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

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

45W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

RV630

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG)

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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