ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV630 G84
GPU variant RV630 XT (215CDABKA15FG) G84-303-A2
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 390 million 289 million
Die size 153 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 28th, 2007 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation Radeon R600 GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 82 in our database 183 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor Radeon R700 GeForce 9
Launch price 159 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 800 MHz 600 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 750 MHz 1500 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1450 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 24.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 120 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 3
Cache L2 64 KB 32 KB
SM count 4

Performance

Pixel rate 3.200 GPixel/s 4.800 GPixel/s
Texture rate 6.400 GTexel/s 9.600 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 192.0 GFLOPS 92.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 45 W 47 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 2x DVI
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Length 170 mm 6.7 inches
Board number P402

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.0 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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