ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +2425%

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jun 2007

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

3

Compute Units

40

120

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV630

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.39 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

153 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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