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Product type: 512 MB (GDDR3) mid-range graphics card
Manufacturer: HIS
Website: hisdigital.com
MSRP: 119 EUR / 129 USD
Hey everyone and welcome to a new review. This time our old friends from HiS have submitted their latest technology in the form of a Radeon HD 2600 XT with no less than 512MB memory. The new 2600 products for the past few weeks have finally penetrated the market a little. As you guys probably now by now; AMD has launched no less than five desktop graphics cards. In the high-end range you'll see the 80nm fabrication process Radeon HD 2900 XT. AMD's ATI also launching an all new Radeon 2400 and 2600 series (low- and mid-range). These products will be based on the latest 65nm fabrication production process.
Let's have a brief overview of the five new graphics cards and on the next page we'll go a little deeper into the silicon that is Radeon HD 2000.
- Radeon HD 2900 XT
- Radeon HD 2600 XT
- Radeon HD 2600 Pro
- Radeon HD 2400 XT
- Radeon HD 2400 Pro
All products including the 2600 are DirectX 10 compatible products, so you'll understand that we'll also talk a little about DX10: the Unified Shader Architecture with those lovely stream processors; a new function on the 2000 Series called Tessellation and last but not least, Avivo HD.
As stated, today's product is a HiS product, and in their line-up they always offer an IceQ version usually combined with a "Turbo" tag. Today's product is no different. Not only does it come with 512MB memory which is quite something for a mid-range product, it also comes pre-overclocked and has that IceQ cooler slapped on top of it.
Good stuff, grab some popcorn, let's startup the review. Next page please.
