Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1416 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+1873%
2842
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
144
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Jun 2007
Southern Islands
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
3
1536
Shading Units
120
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
185W
TDP
35W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV630
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
