ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs GeForce GT 705 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1219
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.08
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF119RV630
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 March 2014 (10 years ago)28 June 2007 (17 years ago)

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 cores48120
Core clock speed874 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors292 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate6.9924.800
Floating-point processing power0.1678 TFLOPS0.144 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed825 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth13.2 GB/s16 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 March 2014 28 June 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 35 Watt

GT 705 OEM has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 20.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 705 OEM and Radeon HD 2600 PRO. We've got no test results to judge.


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