ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 vs R7 M440

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking850not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameMesoRV630
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)26 July 2007 (17 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 cores320120
Core clock speed891 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknownno data
Texture fill rate17.826.400
Floating-point processing power0.5702 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s25.6 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 outputs4x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model6.04.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 26 July 2007
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

R7 M440 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M440 and Radeon HD 2600 XT X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 M440 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R7 M440
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