Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 3730

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Radeon HD 3730
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 3730

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 3730

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionRadeon HD 3730
GPU NameRV630 ()vsRV635 (RV635 PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size153 mm²vs135 mm²
Transistors390 millionvs378 million
Shaders120vs120
Compute Units3vs3
Core clock700 MHzvs722 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionRadeon HD 3730
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs396 MHz
792 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac EditionRadeon HD 3730
TDP45 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs5 Oct 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 3730
    2.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    5.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 3730
    5.78 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 3730
    12.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
    168.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 3730
    173.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better