ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT vs HD 8570A

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1156
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.01
Power efficiencyno data1.17
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameSunRV630
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 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 cores320120
Core clock speed750 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt
Texture fill rate16.506.400
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs208

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 28 June 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

HD 8570A has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8570A and Radeon HD 2600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8570A is a notebook card while Radeon HD 2600 XT is a desktop one.


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