Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition sales 21 February 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 45 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | RV630 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 21 February 2008 (18 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 120 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 390 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 5.600 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.168 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition is GeForce GT 625 OEM.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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