X-bitlabs reviews MSI RX2600XT Diamond video card
There are a lot of modifications of ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT available today that form a family of inexpensive graphics accelerators. Today we are going to introduce to you a solution from MSI that has every chance to win the crown of the fastest single-chip product on RV630. Let's find out if it succeeds.
The ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT was meant to enter the market in two flavors, with GDDR3 memory and with high-frequency and faster GDDR4. However, even the latter version couldn't surpass the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT due to the bottlenecks in the architecture of the new RV630 graphics processor. Being superior to the opposing G84 core in sheer computing power, the RV630 is greatly limited by having only eight texture and four raster processors, which affects its performance at high resolutions and with enabled full-screen antialiasing...
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