ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1480 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+1280%
2.32 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
0.168 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Feb 2008
Evergreen
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
120
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
168.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
294W
TDP
45W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
RV630
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
