Apple M2 Pro 19-core vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 19-core and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support.

Apple M2 Pro 19-core

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 19-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 600 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 26 July 2007
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

6.3x more pipelines: 120 vs 19

Pipelines	120 vs 19

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 19-core	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	26 July 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Architecture		TeraScale
Code name		M76
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	65 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.799 TFLOPS
Pipelines	19	120
Render output units	76
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Floating-point performance		144 gflops
Texture fill rate		4.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		390 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	21.92 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		1370 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-II
API support
DirectX		10.0
OpenGL		3.3