X-bitlabs reviews Asus EAH2600PRO video card
Graphics cards based on ATI Radeon HD 2600 are a good choice today for a contemporary multimedia system and are available in various modifications. We are going to introduce to you one of these solutions - a graphics card from Asus.
Created by AMD's graphics department to conquer the mainstream sector, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 (RV630) processor proved to be an ambiguous product. Although endowed with good technical characteristics, this GPU is not really brilliant in gaming applications.
Our tests showed that the Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4, the senior RV630-based graphics card model, did not have an overwhelming advantage over its market opponent Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT despite being closer to the more advanced GeForce 8600 GTS in its specs. Why? Because the RV630 core has only four rasterization subunits and the drivers are not yet quite polished off...
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