Serious problems with the top model of the Radeon HD 2600

As we know, AMD-ATI officially yanked the cover off the next generation of Radeon video cards yesterday.

As you may have known for some time, not only the HD 2900 XT / XTX, but also the Radeon HD 2600 XT will be a version with GDDR4 memory. Although these memories are theoretically much faster than the previous generation, AMD-ATI still has more problems with it than they could gain from them. It’s perhaps no coincidence that NVIDIA isn’t forcing GDDR4 for the latest GeForces yet.

Radeon HD 2600 XT: RV630 GPU operates at 800 MHz, 256 MB VRAM effectively operates at 2,2 GHz

It's also clear that AMD-ATI could make NVIDIA's life harder, especially in the mid-range, as the 8600 GTS / GT and 8500 GT were disappointing in terms of performance, but in the upper class, the GeForce 8800 GTX / Ultra is still the winner. choice, although they are much more expensive than an HD 2900 XT, and we also have to wait another month for the HD 2900 XTX to find out what it is actually capable of.

It is possible that AMD-ATI will launch a 512 MB version in the future

A Inquirer employee tested a prototype of the GadeDR2600 version of the Radeon HD 4 XT, which had very serious stability problems and a tendency to overheat, so we can say that in the remaining month - of course, if there is no further slip - they will have something to work with AMD- ATI development engineers.

The 65 nm chip is 11 × 13 mm: almost 50% smaller than an RV560 (X1650 XT)

The G84-400 (8600 GTS) is visibly larger than the RV630

GeForce 8600 GTS vs. Radeon HD 2600 XT: Huge size difference

The size of the cooling units also shows the difference between the two cards

The length of the HD 2600 XT almost reaches the motherboard