Graphic Cards Radeon 2400 and 2600 benched

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seems like 2600XT and 2600 Pro are going to be amazing cards looking at the prices at which they'll sell!! Go ATI/AMD... give the best drivers!!
 
So DAAMIT might take the mid range/budget DX10 cake whereas Nvidia will get to keep the high end. Atleast thats what it look like at the moment...
 
The mid range and budget segments of the market are big money spinners. Good to see AMD getting an early foothold in these segments with these parts, reversing previous trends.
 
so atlast the guys who innovated the Driver for GPU are getting some foothold. thats good news.
 
Shade said:
The mid range and budget segments of the market are big money spinners. Good to see AMD getting an early foothold in these segments with these parts, reversing previous trends.
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eh..early foothold?? :S

In any case things are not clear still...
 
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (approx $149)
AMD's HD 2600 XT is a solid card that feels quite mature and works rock stable. Performance is a bit less than what I expected, especially to the X1xxx products the speed difference is quite small. On the other hand you get several new features like DirectX 10 support and the wonderful UVD high-definition video decode acceleration. Unlike NVIDIA's GeForce 8 Series, AMD gives you the whole multimedia package which consists of HDMI + Audio + HDCP.

While gaming performance of the HD 2600 XT is generally a bit slower than the GeForce 8600 GTS, the price is lower as well. In this market segment price is often more important than a few percent more or less performance.
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Radeon HD 2400 Pro (approx $59)
Just like NVIDIA's GeForce 8500, the HD 2400 Pro is not a big performance upgrade, but comes with a ton of new features. Certainly very interesting is support for DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0. But let's be honest, which serious gamer will try this on a $60 graphics card? Personally I think the more interesting feature is the new UVD video acceleration which lets you watch full HD content, even with weak CPUs. Personally I have tried this card in my media PC which uses an Athlon64 3000+ processor. As you can imagine without acceleration, watching 1080p content is impossible. Once the 2400 Pro was installed, HD playback was very smooth. Also it is important to note that you will have support for HDCP and fully digital audio.
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AnandTech: More Mainstream DX10: AMD's 2400 and 2600 Series
After AMD's introduction of the 2900 XT, we held some hope that perhaps they would capitalize on the huge gap NVIDIA left between their sub $200 parts and the higher end hardware. Unfortunately, that has not happened.

In fact, AMD went the other way and released hardware that performs consistently worse than NVIDIA's competitive offerings.
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There's a silver lining tho' ( for AMD/ATI/OEMs )
ATI 2400 and 2600 deliberately priced low
This means the board can get away without a 6-pin PCIe connector. The equivalent Nvidia cards, the 8600 line, all need a 6-pin connector.
On the lower end cards, the 2400Pro, as pictured above, can be passively cooled.
Why does this matter? To you, and the end user, it really doesn't. To OEMs like Dell, it matters a lot, and it sells cards by the millions. In the 2600 vs 8600 fight, the 8600 requires a more expensive power supply and an extra step in manufacturing. In the 2600 vs 8600 fight, the 8600 requires a more expensive power supply and an extra step in manufacturing.
Toss in the extra hardware that you do not need when making an ATI 2x00 board, HDMI chips, evil HDCP DRM infection hardware, VC-1 support, and sound hardware, and you have a clean kill for OEMs. You can make an ATI system for notably less than an Nvidia one.
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montylee said:
I hope AMD ATI improves its drivers, especially for GNU/Linux.
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I've just found out that AMD's working really hard on the drivers for Linux...and in version 8.42, its gonna be close to performance as windows in openGL for the X2x00 cards...

Just saw recently they r improving the cc looks... Now we'll see the performance by year end!!
 
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