ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 18% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 594 MHz
5.9x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
6.7x more pipelines: 800 vs 120
7.9x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 142.56 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
5.1x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 792 MHz
9.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1092 vs 110
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 223 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 120
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops vs 142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 792 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1092 vs 110
PassMark - G2D Mark	223 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1092

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

223

137

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	1092	110
PassMark - G2D Mark	223	137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	8.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	585.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	20.108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	98.606
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3077
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Broadway	RV630
Launch date	7 January 2010	28 June 2007
Place in performance rating	1190	1192
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	800	120
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	4.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
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	64.0 GB / s	12.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a