Radeon RX 5800 vs ATI HD 2600 PRO

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1217not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.10no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV630Navi 23
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (17 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores1203072
Core clock speed600 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1735 MHz
Number of transistors390 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate4.800333.1
Floating-point processing power0.144 TFLOPS10.66 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8192

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s448.0 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 275 Watt

ATI HD 2600 PRO has 685.7% lower power consumption.

RX 5800, on the other hand, has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2600 PRO and Radeon RX 5800. We've got no test results to judge.


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