ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 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 Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 750 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 2x 6.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 6.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Around 33% higher pipelines: 320 vs 2x 120
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 480.0 gflops vs 2x 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Pipelines	320 vs 2x 120
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops vs 2x 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT X2	ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale
Code name	RV630	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	800 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 192 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2x 120	320
Texture fill rate	2x 6.4 GTexel / s billion / sec	24 GTexel / s
Transistor count	390 million	514 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		59 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Length		193 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3