In particular, it's good for watching DVDs or high-definition media such as Blu-ray or HD-DVD. The stream processor count tops at 120, a far cry from the 320 used at the current top end of the HD 2000-series, and a much smaller 128-bit memory bus has also been used.Īlthough the hardware is not primed for serious gamers, offering fairly mediocre scores in our benchmarks, its passive cooler and less-invasive size will appeal to people looking to build a quiet, and possibly smaller form factor, PC that can handle media applications. They're all built using the new 65nm fabrication process and have a core clock speed of 600MHz and a memory clock speed of 1000MHz (effective).
#Sapphire radeon hd 2600 xt 256mb gddr4 pro
Apart from the memory size and type, and the passive cooling on our review model, there are no other variations among the different HD 2600 Pro cards. Like the Radeon HD2600 XT, which uses GDDR4 memory but also has a GDDR3 version, our test sample of the HD 2600 Pro uses 256MB of GDDR3, but a GDDR2 version is also available, in capacities from 128MB to 512MB. This version of Sapphire's Pro card is also a silent one it uses a passive cooler to help keep your PCs noise level to a minimum. Sapphire's budget version of the HD 2600 GPU slots in below its Radeon HD2600 XT on the performance scale. For those of us who wish to run Windows Vista smoothly, play some basic level of gaming and watch movies on the computer, without greatly impacting system performance, the Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 Pro is an affordable option.
ATI hasn't yet released its high-end competitor to NVIDIA's 8800 GTX GPU (assuming one is coming), but there are plenty of options available at the lower end of the market.
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