On the Radeon HD 2600 XT reference board we got for reviewing the graphics chip was running at 800 MHz and had 256 MB GDDR4 memory chips running at 2.2 GHz (1.1 GHz x 2), using a 128-bit memory interface. All ATI employees are now officially AMD employees, the website is from AMD, AMD refers ATI products as being AMD products but they are still red and using ATI stickers. But of course we don’t live on a perfect world.Īnd another thing that is confusing is the future of ATI brand itself. Or even use a different product name (e.g., 2600 XT for the model with GDDR XT for the model with GDDR4). We think that in name of transparency AMD should require all their partners to add some extra info on the product name to clarify what clocks and/or memory technology that particular product is using, for example Radeon HD 2600 XT xxx/yyy, where xxx is the chip clock and yyy is the memory clock. One can buy a Radeon HD 2600 XT card based on a review to discover later that the model he or she bought has a performance lower than the model featured on the review, for example. We think this is really nasty to the customer, as customers can be easily deceived.
The problem is that the reference models we got for reviewing were running at the top clock speeds and other Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 boards you will find at the market may be running at lower clock rates and thus achieving a lower performance.
And for Radeon HD 2400 they allow the manufacturer to set any clock rate they want.
Ati radeon hd 2600 xt. windows#
From the strange and inconsistent benchmark results to the bizarre instabilities and incompatibilities, we had all the issues we expected but didn’t encounter when we converted our high-end test rigs to Windows Vista at the start of May.The second problem is that AMD there are two basic versions of Radeon HD 2600 XT, one using GDDR4 memories running at 2.2 GHz (1.1 GHz DDR) and another using GDDR3 memories running at 1.6 GHz (800 MHz DDR). It’s fair to say that this article has come a little later than we’d originally planned thanks to a slew of issues as a result of our move to Windows Vista. Coincidentally, while it’s not the cheapest GeForce 8600 GT on the market, this particular one has a very similar asking price to Sapphire’s HD 2600 XT GDDR4 and should make for an interesting comparison. We’ve had Asus’ EN8600GT on the test bench for a while now and that’s the card we’re going to be directly comparing to the HD 2600 XT GDDR4. VAT), AMD isn’t targeting Nvidia’s GeForce 8600 GTS instead the company is taking aim at Nvidia’s GeForce 8600 GT, which can be purchased for anywhere between £75 to £110 including VAT. Since this product is priced well under £100 (inc. Today we are looking at AMD’s top mid-range card, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 and in particular we’re looking at Sapphire’s product. And let’s not forget AMD, either, as it launched its mid-range HD 2400- and 2600-series graphics cards at the end of June. Mid-range madness, heartache and heroics.Nvidia’s mid-range hardware has been on the market for quite some time now, but for several reasons we’ve somehow avoided writing about quite a few of the models that make up the company’s mainstream DirectX 10 lineup.
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