Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 710

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 710

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710
GPU NameRV630 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size153 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors390 millionvsunknown
Shaders120vs192
Compute Units3vs1
Core clock700 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710
TDP45 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    2.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    5.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    168.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better