Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

205 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Ti .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 780 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 780 Ti
GPU NameRV630 ()vsGK110B (GK110-425-B1)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size153 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors390 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders120vs2880
Compute Units3vs15
Core clock700 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs4vs48
TMUs8vs240

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 780 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 780 Ti
TDP45 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs7 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    2.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    52.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    5.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    210.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    25.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    168.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    5040.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better