AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

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AMD Radeon HD 7850 ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

904 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +817%

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

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Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

3

1024

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV630

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

45W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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