ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT vs ATI Mobility HD 2600

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1159
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.01
Power efficiencyno data1.13
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameM76RV630
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date14 May 2007 (17 years ago)28 June 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores120120
Core clock speed500 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors390 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0006.400
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2007 28 June 2007

ATI HD 2600 XT has an age advantage of 1 month.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 2600 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 2600 XT is a desktop one.


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