Obviously, if you’re purely after card for gaming, the Radeon X1950 Pro and GeForce 7900 GS look a better value for money in the short term, as there is no really compelling DirectX 10 content out there at the moment.
#Radeon hd 2600 xt hdmi driver#
All we can hope for is improvements in performance over subsequent driver releases, but we’re not going to hold much hope for that one happening - it looks more fundamental than that. On that front, the HD 2600 XT GDDR4 looks to have taken a leaf out of the Radeon HD 2900 XT’s book and seems to solidify the fact that there is something seriously wrong with AMD's anti-aliasing performance on its HD 2000-series of products. The Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4, on the other hand performs worse than the GeForce 8600 GT in four of the five titles we’ve tested with anti-aliasing, but fares a lot better against the 8600 GT when you disable anti-aliasing. However, things don’t look quite so good once you compare it to the previous generation cards like the GeForce 7900 GS, or Radeon X1950 Pro which can be picked up for around the same price. Let’s focus on each card separately – we’ll look at gaming first.įirst, Nvidia’s GeForce 8600 GT fits in to the company’s DirectX 10 line up quite well – it’s cheaper than the GeForce 8600 GTS and delivers a fairly respectable gaming experience compared to that card in isolation. We’re left with a situation where there is a massive gap between the high-end and the mid-range. That, unfortunately, hasn’t happened though. When I say hype, I mean that, based on the tremendous value for money the mid-range graphics cards of the past year have delivered, many were expecting both AMD and Nvidia to come up trumps with two new mid-range price/performance masterclasses.
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I guess it’s now time to start drawing some conclusions on what I’ve seen.īoth the Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 and the GeForce 8600 GT have been victims of hype in my opinion. Final Thoughts.It seems an age since I started this review before Computex, and it’s taken me the best part of a couple of months to get through the teething problems.