AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2184 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +3607%

7.119 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jun 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

3

-

2304

Shading Units

120

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

RV630

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

232 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

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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