ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 vs GeForce GT 230

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1217	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	0.79	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	G94B	RV630
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	12 October 2009 (16 years ago)	26 July 2007 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$43.99	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	120 ×2
Core clock speed	650 MHz	800 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	390 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	15.60	6.400 ×2
Floating-point processing power	0.156 TFLOPS	0.192 TFLOPS ×2
ROPs	16	4 ×2
TMUs	24	8 ×2
L2 Cache	64 KB	64 KB

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
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin

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	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB ×2
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit ×2
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB/s	25.6 GB/s ×2

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D 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	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	12 October 2009	26 July 2007
Chip lithography	55 nm	65 nm