ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 600 MHz
5x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 320 vs 120
3.3x better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 144 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1370 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 120
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1370 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale
Code name	M76	RV730
Launch date	26 July 2007	17 July 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	144 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	120	320
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	24 GTexel / s
Transistor count	390 million	514 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		59 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 8x
Length		193 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	21.92 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1370 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3