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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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Time has come for AMD's low-end and mid-end solutions with DirectX 10 support to enter the market. The main difference from the top R600 GPUs is the 65 nm process technology used to manufacture the RV630/RV610. Today we are testing five graphics cards: two reference cards, and the three products from Sapphire, TUL, and HIS. This article will not focus solely on the products themselves, but will take a stronger look at the architectures behind these cards.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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To this end ATI recently launched the HD 2600 XT, HD 2600 Pro, HD 2400 XT, and HD 2400 Pro graphics cards. These will be directly competing with the 8600 GT, 8500 GT, and 8400 GS from nVidia in the sub £100 market. Indeed prices for these parts start at £87 for the HD 2600 XT and finish with the HD 2400 Pro at £34.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
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Radeon HD 2600 XT is the new mid-range video card from AMD/ATI, supporting Shader 4.0 unified architecture (i.e. DirectX 10) and competing directly with GeForce 8600 GT from nVidia, both costing around USD 150. In this review we will compare Radeon HD 2600 XT to GeForce 8600 GT and also to several other mid-range boards from both ATI and nVidia. Check it out.
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Sporting a brand new naming scheme, AMD's brand new mainstream dual-core Athlon X2 BE-2350 is based on the same 65nm 'Brisbane' manufacturing process, but now offers a suprisingly cool 45W max. TDP for extreme energy efficiency in the desktop space.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
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Joining in the fray for mainstream DirectX 10 graphics cards is ATI, which follows up its high-end R600 launch with two new series based on a different 65nm core. Read on to find how the budget oriented Radeon HD 2400 XT fares in our benchmarks.
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The new ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is finally here in the Tech ARP labs! ATI's top dog is now ready to battle it out with NVIDIA's own DirectX 10 graphics card. Let's put it through the paces in Windows Vista and see how well it does against the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX and the GeForce 8600 GTS. We will also see how it performs in DirectX 10 rendering. Will it be as slow as you thought it was? Or will it actually beat the GeForce 8800 GTX in DirectX 10??? Read on and find out!
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ATI's new Radeon HD 2400 XT comes with the RV610 GPU which is built in 65nm. This means the GPU is cheap to make and consumes very little power. AMD has also added several new power savings features which makes this card one of the least power hungry on the market. For a price of only $79 you will be able to play back HD videos on almost any CPU using an HDMI + HDCP + Audio link with the UVD HD video acceleration hardware.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
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Today AMD has officially released their low-end and mainstream graphics cards in the Radeon HD 2000 family, the Radeon HD 2400 and Radeon HD 2600 series respectively. While these new graphics cards should already be at your favorite retailer or presently in route, where are the Linux drivers? AMD's high-end Radeon HD 2900XT was pushed out the door in early May, but we have yet to see any official support for that or any of the graphics processors in the Radeon HD 2000 series under Linux.
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ATI is changing pace from their flagship by releasing their DirectX 10 mainstream cards within recent memory of NVIDIA's mainstream release. NVIDIA's mainstream release was memorable if bitter; the advantages of the unified shader architecture that made the 8800-series of video cards so powerful didn't have the same puissance once it was cut down for the masses. Made people sad. So a lot of people are excited about these mainstream cards. Not everyone wants a video card that costs $400 or more, and for a while there, the options were: buy a crappy mainstream current-generation card, or buy an aging card from way back when, that yeah, plays games as good (if not better) but doesn't have the features and consumes a lot of power, puts out a lot of heat, and makes all the noise associated with high-end parts.
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Bottom line: there's a heap of promise in the Radeon HD 2400/2600 series. That promise is severely compromised by lacklustre performance and instability caused by the test drivers.
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The HD 2600 XT is AMD's new midrange flagship card which is based on the RV630 GPU. This is the first time that a midrange card comes equipped with GDDR4 memory - 256 MB in our case. AMD's new card comes with features such as DirectX 10 support and full HD video acceleration by dedicated hardware called UVD. But is this enough to beat NVIDIA's new products?
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Monday, June 25, 2007
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Although the initial information was that AMD was going to launch the entire product gamma at once, from the strongest HD 2900XT all the way down to the weakest HD 2400Pro, something obviously went wrong. Therefore, it is only now that we received samples of their mid-range cards. However, first test leaves plenty to be desired.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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Whilst the real performance users may be a little disappointed not to have new boards available with higher specifications than the 580, those on a budget have a plethora of new boards to choose from and we have two such products to test today, Sapphires Pure Innovation and MSIs K9GAM2. Lets see how they compare to one of the current value segment leaders, the Asus M2NPV-VM.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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This graphics card has 700 million transistors and is built on 80nm fab. Memory is 512MB of GDDR3 with a 512-bit, 8-channel interface. ATI uses 320 stream processing units and 128-bit floating point precision for all operations. The ATI HD 2900 XT is also fully DirectX 10 compliant and uses shader model 4.0.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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After a long period of time since nVidia first presented the G80 chip, ATi strikes back with an answer. Yes, it's about the graphics card with the already-infamous chip codenamed R600. There were incredibly many predictions about it, but the greatest part of it turned out to be pure speculation. Read on to find out the truth about R600, its architecture, new technologies and real-world performance.
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