The first alarm signals about changes in the announcement graph of video card AMD radeon HD 2x00 appeared yesterday. We decided to wait some time in order to obtain confirmation from other sources. Thus, let us examine the change in the announcement graph for video card on chips r600, RV630 and RV610.
We start from the yesterday information. AMD does not have a possibility to demonstrate close in their characteristics video card on 65 nm (chips RV630 and RV610 ) in the following month. Such card my show up in the beginning of June with Computex 2007. The characteristics of video card radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 will be proclaimed on 14 May, and sales will begin on 1 July, 2007. Test results we be available in July . Prices of video card radeon HD 2600 will be packed in the range from $99 to $199, cost of video card radeon HD 2400 will be in the limits from $59 to $99.
According to our information, Radeon HD 2900 XTX actually will not be announced in May . To Protect its interests AMD will show only the Radeon HD 2900 XT with recommended cost $399 and 512 mb GDDR- 3 memory . As reports associate, the announcement of this video card will from 14 May on 2 May. Video card Sales in the limited quantities will begin on14-15 May. The final frequencies Of radeon HD 2900 XT are equal to 740/1650 MHz.
The speed level Of radeon HD 2900 XT will be insufficient to complete with G80 GTX cards ; therefore its possible to compare this video card with GeForce 8800 GTS. This last can be found for 300-350$ , and in this case many will forget about the 399$ HD 2900 XT.
The Radeon HD 2900 XT will enter with new driver version 8.37. It will ensure sound support through HDMI interface . It would be desirable to believe that some improvements in speed will be provided.