ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 35 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 792 MHz
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 181 vs 110
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 330 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 28 June 2007
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 792 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	181 vs 110
PassMark - G2D Mark	330 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 4.75 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 120 vs 80
Around 78% better floating-point performance: 142.56 gflops vs 80 gflops

Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.75 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	120 vs 80
Floating-point performance	142.56 gflops vs 80 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

330

137

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	181	110
PassMark - G2D Mark	330	137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	7.489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	904
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	904
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1733
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1733

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Park	RV630
Launch date	7 January 2010	28 June 2007
Place in performance rating	1160	1163
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	80	120
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	4.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	12.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5?	DDR2
Shared memory	0