Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Place in performance ranking	939	1174
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	0.04	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	G92	RV630
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	11 December 2007 (16 years ago)	28 June 2007 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$349	no data
Current price	$146 (0.4x MSRP)	$100

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

8800 GTS 512 and ATI HD 2600 PRO have a nearly equal value for money.

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	128	120
Core clock speed	650 MHz	600 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	390 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	135 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	41.60	4.800
Floating-point performance	416.0 gflops	144 gflops

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	254 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1640 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	52.48 GB/s	16 GB/s

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API Compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

8800 GTS 512 1.47
+167%

ATI HD 2600 PRO 0.55

GeForce 8800 GTS 512 outperforms Radeon HD 2600 PRO by 167% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

8800 GTS 512 568
+169%

ATI HD 2600 PRO 211

GeForce 8800 GTS 512 outperforms Radeon HD 2600 PRO by 169% in Passmark.