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- #Radeon hd 2600 xt iceq turbo pro#
- #Radeon hd 2600 xt iceq turbo series#
- #Radeon hd 2600 xt iceq turbo windows#
OK, I don't know how soon it will happen, and how fast the new cards will justify their expenses.
#Radeon hd 2600 xt iceq turbo windows#
I suspect that by the time a Mid-End DX10 card will become a necessity under the pressure of MS Windows Vista and DX10 games, there will appear much faster Mid-End cards for the same prices.
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#Radeon hd 2600 xt iceq turbo pro#
The X1950 PRO is also much more expedient than the HD 2600. It has more texture units and ROPs than the new DX10 card. And this old card has a 256-bit bus and 20+7 pipelines. That's all! In other respects, the previous generations are NO WORSE! The GeForce 7900GS is already cheaper than the GeForce 8600GTS. In fact, the only reason to buy the new family of graphics cards from NVIDIA (except for Hi-End models, of course) and AMD is to be able to play DX10 games in future (if they do not support DX9) as well as to enjoy HDTV. It's much more expedient now to buy the GeForce 7900GS or the RADEON X1950 PRO than these new DX10 cards, which are very slow in modern games. So AMD entered the market with initially low prices to attract users to the new products.īut it should be added that the new cards both from NVIDIA and AMD are cut down so much that they are sometimes outperformed even by their DX9 predecessors. Skimming the cream off the new sales (raising prices) was out of the question, because NVIDIA were selling their products like hot cakes. This approach surely couldn't win the market. Similar product from NVIDIA have been conquering stores since this spring, and their competing solutions appeared only two months ago. Editor's choice for features versus pricing, no doubt.Experienced readers as well as those users who are interested in graphics cards (why else you read this article?) know well about the delayed launch of the new family of budget and Mid-End ATI RADEON graphics cards from AMD. For roughly 120 bucks you get to have this product that is factually faster than the more expensve gDDR4 model.ĭefinitely a product worth considering if you are in the market for a sub low- to mid-range mainstream product or a bloody good HTPC graphics card. So while overall performance has a hard time keeping up with the competition, everything else about the HIS Radeon HD 2600 XT ICEQ Turbo 512MB gDDR3 model is really promising, including the price. The card would rock as a HDTV decoder in a HTPC, it's completely silent, it scores a near perfect score image quality wise with HQV HD and can accelerate the decoding process over the GPU. HDTV, media center, Dual-link DVI, HD playback, offloading the CPU for playback, H.264 or whatever decoding process you need this product is capable of it.
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The media playback/encoding/decoding functions. Think about other functionality for a minute. With videocards however, there's more to consider then just gaming. It offers heaps of features and functionality for a fair sum of money. For the money versus the features this is going to be a well received mid-range product. The HD 2600 XT ICEQ Turbo DDR3 is a very prominent series. The insertion of the higher default clock speeds on both core and memory make this product perform faster then the fastest ATI mid-range product, the HD 2600 XT gDDR4, and that's absolutely interesting to see as you definitely need that extra performance. You'll need to stick with resolutions up-to 10x7 and 12x10 in games.īut granted the 512MB definitely is great for high-quality textures which make games look more crisp. Obviously 512MB normally would also help with Anti Aliasing, yet since the overall performance of ATI's current mid-range product line is lacking, you don't have enough horse power to play around with high AA levels. It's in these facts where you need to look for the advantage of 512MB. So then with 512MB, you get to play with high-quality textures. To the left 256MB medium texture quality, to your right the 512Mb high-quality option is now enabled.
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Let me show you, take a good look at the image above GRAW2. Take GRAW 2 for example, if you start that game up with a 256MB card, your texture quality will be set to medium automatically. So get this, the card as shown today you can pick up for roughly 120 EUR, that's including the cooler and the 512MB gDDR3 memory, with plenty of texture memory for upcoming game titles that in my book definitely is a positive.
#Radeon hd 2600 xt iceq turbo series#
Now we can discuss the generic performance of the 2600 series over and over again, but this is what AMD-ATI has to offer at the moment. I have to admit, a HIS product never fails to disappoint.