Steam Deck GPU vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1219not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.08no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV630Van Gogh
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (17 years ago)25 February 2022 (2 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 cores120512
Core clock speed600 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1600 MHz
Number of transistors390 million2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate4.80051.20
Floating-point processing power0.144 TFLOPS1.638 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832
Ray Tracing Coresno 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16no data
Lengthno data298 mm
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s88 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2007 25 February 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Steam Deck GPU has an age advantage of 14 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 828.6% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2600 PRO and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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