ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1164
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.02
Power efficiencyno data1.11
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGMA 950RV630
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 years ago)28 June 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4120
Core clock speedno data800 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data390 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data6.400
Floating-point processing powerno data0.192 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data10.0 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 28 June 2007
Chip lithography 130 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 45 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 has 542.9% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 2600 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 and Radeon HD 2600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 2600 XT is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
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