ATI Radeon X1650 PRO AGP vs ATI HD 2600 PRO

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1212not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.13no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameRV630RV535
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (17 years ago)15 October 2006 (18 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 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors390 million330 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt44 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8002.400
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 8x
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s22.4 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-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2007 15 October 2006
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 44 Watt

ATI HD 2600 PRO has an age advantage of 8 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 23.1% more advanced lithography process, and 25.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2600 PRO and Radeon X1650 PRO AGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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