NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 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, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 36% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 594 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 12.96 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
2.2x better floating-point performance: 311.0 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
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 792 MHz
6.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 681 vs 110
Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 May 2012 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.96 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	311.0 gflops vs 142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 792 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	681 vs 110
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Around 25% higher pipelines: 120 vs 96
Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Pipelines	120 vs 96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

681

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

137

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	681	110
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	137
Geekbench - OpenCL	2473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	140.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.502
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	12.49
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1853
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2073
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1853
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2073
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	170

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	RV630
Launch date	15 May 2012	28 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$99.99
Place in performance rating	1440	1192
Price now	$99.21
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	8.89
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	311.0 gflops	142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	120
Texture fill rate	12.96 GTexel / s	4.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.67 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2