AMD Radeon 550X vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

392 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +642%

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

0.168 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Feb 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

3

-

512

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV630

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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