Radeon HD 2600XT - an image plus a little information

The time for new ATI cards to debut is approaching as information multiplies.

Now, not the top card, the HD 600T based on the R2900 core, but the little brother came out of somewhere in the pockets of the Chinese net.

Of course, the data has not been confirmed anywhere, but let us trust that it is authentic. So the bottom line is that we have 256 MB of GDDR4 memory on the card. The core is made at a bandwidth of 65 nanometers, and the BIOS date is April 80th. Up to 5 watts of power consumption, and which sounds very good, 1080% load on the processor when playing XNUMXp video.

It is interesting that the power consumption is "only" 80 watts, but the card has a large cooling compared to its category. The conclusion arising from the first observation — that is, the higher power consumption — is contradicted by the fact that there is no extra power connector on the board. In principle, 80 watts cannot be provided via the PCI Express bus. The NVIDIA 8600 GTS exceeds the limits provided by the standard by only a tiny watt, but NVIDIA still put a power connector on its card. On the other hand, the 5 percent load is encouraging, as it means that the Canadians have succeeded very well in implementing the hardware support for HD materials, and we can build great home theater PCs from the smaller ATI cards.