The video card series radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 with directX 10 support appeared on the market after the video card NVIDIA series geForce 8600 and GeForce 8500/8400, attractive prices and the developed functional possibilities helped them to feel rather well in the competitive activity. All AMD video card from this price range propose the native HDMI support , whereas NVIDIA leave the HDMI support choice to video card producers . AMD Video card have the hardware support ( acceleration Of h.264 and VC-1), whereas NVIDIA video card are capable to accelerate at the hardware level only H.264. Finally, the appropriate AMD video card are proposed with AGP 8x interface , but they will not support temporarily DirectX 10.
All enumerated factors will allow the video cards series radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 to reach soon 50% portion of the deliveries volumes for video card on average and initial price ranges. Second-half, will be presented by NVIDIA video card .
So the delay in the release of AMD video card , supporting DirectX 10, actually was not reflected in the business of company.