AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

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AMD Radeon R9 280 ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1672 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +2238%

3.344 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

0.143 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

3

1792

Shading Units

120

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.752 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.6 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV630

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

35W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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