ATI RADEON HD 2600 XT. PRO
ATI RADEON HD 2600 XT. SERIES

The fan on this design is actually VERY quiet, more so than on any other AMD/ATI card I have seen in recent years. The 65nm process that AMD is using on the 2600 cards is what allows it to reach a higher clock speed than the 2900 (which ran at 740 MHz) while maintaining a much lower power consumption rate. The official specs of this card from AMD are: The AMD ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT card is seen here with a single slot cooling design and bright red PCB. That will be another big performance hit for these cards. Another big performance difference between the HD 2900 XT and the HD2600 cards is the memory interface: it’s only 128-bits on the mid-range cards versus 512-bits on the flagship.

ATI RADEON HD 2600 XT. SERIES

Anything that shows a range (like 400-800 MHz) simply means that different cards in that series will have different speeds.

These tables offer us a quick glimpse at some of the main differences in the GPUs from AMD’s Radeon HD 2xxx series. As you might guess, that gives the 2600 series considerably less horsepower though at a lower price and lower power consumption. While the flagship 2900 XT architecture features 320 stream processors, 16 texture units and 16 ROPs, the 2600 architecture (for both 2600 XT and the 2600 Pro) is powered by 120 stream processors, 8 texture units and 4 ROPs. Here is the 2600 GPU in its block diagram glory. The architecture of the Radeon HD 2600 XT is much like that of the 2900 XT, though with fewer stream processors, etc. This could be considered the “flagship” of AMD’s mid-range graphics cards as it has the highest price and fastest gaming performance of the new AMD cards introduced today. You might consider it a pre-req for this article. It has all same block diagrams you’ll see below for the flagship cards as well as more detail on the stream processors, texture units, memory controller and more.

For now, let’s take a look at each of the cards on the chopping block today.įor some background on the architecture and technology behind the AMD Radeon HD 2xxx series of graphics cards, you’ll definitely want to check out my original review of the HD 2900 XT from May. This does leave a conspicuous gap between the 2600 XT and the 2900 XT, but we’ll touch on that later on down the road. The cards that we are reviewing here today are mid-range to budget priced video cards prices top out at the $150 range for the Radeon HD 2600 XT. After a six week wait, we can finally do so. We shared most of the technical information on the remainder of the Radeon HD 2xxx series then, but what we couldn’t tell you about yet was the performance. At the time though, only the flagship ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT card was made available to compete with the top cards from NVIDIA’s 8-series of GPUs. In mid-May AMD announced the entirety of a new lineup of graphics cards based on the R600 architecture. We take then all for a whirl and see where they end up.

ATI RADEON HD 2600 XT. PRO

The 2600 XT AMD has finally pushed the big red button on the Radeon HD 2600 XT, 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

3DMark06 – Radeon HD 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

Rainbow Six: Vegas – Radeon HD 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

HL2: Episode 1 – Radeon HD 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

Oblivion – Radeon HD 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

Company of Heroes – Radeon HD 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

Supreme Commander – Radeon HD 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

AMD has finally pushed the big red button on the Radeon HD 2600 XT, 2600 Pro and 2400 XT.

Ati radeon hd 2600 xt.