Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon HD 2600 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon HD 2600 PRO
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon HD 2600 PRO
217
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon HD 2600 PRO
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
120
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
4.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A