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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Review

Our review of the new mid-range graphics card from AMD/ATI, Radeon HD 2600 XT. Let’s see how it compares to GeForce 8600 GT and other competitors from NVIDIA. Check it out.

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How We Tested

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Reference Model
  • 3. Main Specifications
  • 4. How We Tested
  • 5. 3DMark03
  • 6. 3DMark06
  • 7. Quake 4
  • 8. F.E.A.R.
  • 9. Far Cry
  • 10. Battlefield 2142
  • 11. Conclusions

During our benchmarking sessions, we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only different device was the video card being tested.

Hardware Configuration

  • Motherboard: ASUS P5B (Intel P965, 0904 BIOS)
  • CPU: Core 2 Extreme X6800 (dual-core, 2.93 GHz)
  • CPU Cooler: Gigabyte Neon 775-BL
  • Memory: 2 GB PC-1066/PC2-8500 (Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 kit), configured at 1,066 MHz with 5-5-5-15 timings.
  • Hard Drive: Samsung HD080HJ (80 GB, SATA-300, 8 MB buffer, 7,200 rpm)
  • Power Supply: Zalman ZM-600HP
  • Video Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 1100MB
  • Screen resolution: [email protected] Hz

Software Configuration

  • Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS
  • Service Pack 2
  • Direct X 9.0c
  • Intel inf driver version: 8.0.1.1002
  • ATI video driver version: Catalyst 8.3 (Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400)
  • ATI video driver version: Catalyst 7.2 (all other ATI video cards)
  • NVIDIA video driver version: 93.71 (GeForce 6 and 7 Family)
  • NVIDIA video driver version: 158.22 (GeForce 8 Family)

Used Software

  • 3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0
  • 3DMark06 Professional Edition 1.10
  • Battlefield 2142 1.01
  • Far Cry 1.4 with HardwareOC Far Cry Benchmark 1.7
  • F.E.A.R. 1.08
  • Quake 4 1.3

We adopted a 3% error margin; thus, differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.

Continue: 3DMark03

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