AMD Radeon R9 285 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 285

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 R9 285 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1672 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +1858%

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

0.168 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

3

-

1792

Shading Units

120

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

RV630

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

366 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

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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