AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +2033%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

45W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

RV630

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

365 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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