ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5850 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

ATI Radeon HD 5850

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 7% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 680 MHz
• 9.6x more texture fill rate: 52.2 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
• 12x more pipelines: 1440 vs 120
• 12.8x better floating-point performance: 2,088.0 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
• 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
• 10.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1966 vs 192
• Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 329
• 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 1503
• 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 1503

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GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5850
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

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