Today AMD Company removes NDA (non disclosure agreement) for the publication of review with video card series radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400, whose announcement will took place in the current block. AMD, plan to start sales of those new video card in the second quarter of 2007. Directly the video card series radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 will be put on the market in the second half-year, at the beginning of July.
The characteristics of those video card are already available in our site . The prices level , as promised will be completely attractive :
- Radeon HD 2600 XT - > $119-149;
- Radeon HD 2600 Pro - > $89-99;
- Radeon HD 2400 XT - > $75-85;
- Radeon HD 2400 Pro - > $50-55.
The version radeon HD 2600 XT with GDDR-4 memory will cost $149, and the most popular version radeon HD 2600 XT with GDDR- 3 memory will cost $119. Let us note that, even Radeon HD 2600 XT can be satisfied with passive cooling.
Those video card can have different adaptability to the crossfire technology in the hardware level, which implies to the use of flexible bridges for data exchange between video cards. For example, if Radeon HD 2600 XT is always equipped with crossfire connection bridge , then Radeon HD 2600 Pro can not be.
HDMI Support will allows all video cards series radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 to derive sound through the DVI port using the special adapter to HDMI. The recently mentioned UVD will allow to decrease the central processor load during video preview from blu-ray and HD DVD disks . Even the weakest computers will not exceed 10-12% ( processor load ). The central processor load can be noticeably higher with NVIDIA video cards . Let us note that Nvidia card support only h.264 acceleration , while new AMD cards support VC-1 and H.264 acceleration.
The directX 10 support is interesting only to the owners of systems with PCI express x16 interface . As reports AMD, the support Of directX 10 for the AGP- version will appear only later, with special driver .
Radeon HD 2600 XT can compete with GeForce 8600 GT, but it does not pretend to to be better than GeForce 8600 GTS, which is reflected in AMD price policy . The Video card radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 has (good)(acceptable) performance in new games, but they slow down with old one.
The Video chip RV630 and RV610 are characterized by low level energy consumptions; therefore video card on their basis are sufficiently economical and noiseless.
The review of video card series radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 is already under process . it will be published as soon as possible.
Update : here is the Radeon HD 2600 abd Radeon HD 2400 review and benchmarks