Radeon HD 2600 XT: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 2600 XT provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.64% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 2600 XT sales 28 June 2007 at a recommended price of $199. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 45 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 2600 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1221
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.02
Power efficiency1.15of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV630
Market segmentDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

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

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 2600 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 2600 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores120of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed800 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors390 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate6.400of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs4of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs8of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache64 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 2600 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 2600 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed700 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 2600 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 2600 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 2600 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

ATI HD 2600 XT
0.64

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

ATI HD 2600 XT 282
Samples: 474

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 2600 XT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 2600 XT's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 2600 XT is GeForce 7800 GTX, which is faster by 3% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 2600 XT:

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