AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD 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 25.60GB/s)
1416 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+1380%
2.842 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2012
Release Date
Jun 2007
Southern Islands
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/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
3.200 GPixel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.842 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
185W
TDP
45W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV630
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GPU Variant
RV630 XT
(215CDABKA15FG)
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
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
