GeForce 256 DDR vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1214not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.09no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameRV630NV10 A3
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (17 years ago)23 December 1999 (24 years ago)

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 cores120no data
Core clock speed600 MHz120 MHz
Number of transistors390 million17 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm220 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.8000.48
Floating-point processing power0.144 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16AGP 4x
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz150 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s4.8 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)7.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.2
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2007 23 December 1999
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 32 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 220 nm

ATI HD 2600 PRO has an age advantage of 7 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 238.5% more advanced lithography process.

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