AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 590 ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2184 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +4137%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

0.168 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

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Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Feb 2008

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

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

3

2304

Shading Units

120

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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