AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 512MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +2549%

3.789 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

0.143 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

3

-

2048

Shading Units

120

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.752 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.6 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

35W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

RV630

-

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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