Highly Defined: ATI Radeon HD 2000 Architecture Review. Page 11
[05/15/2007 07:34 AM | Graphics]
by Anton Shilov , Yaroslav Lyssenko, Alexey Stepin
The sixth-generation ATI Radeon series has mirrored the release of the third-generation Nvidia GeForce – having been scheduled for a Q4 2006 release, the highly anticipated R600 is coming out in Q2 2007, half a year after its main opponent. Will the R600 be a new R300 or follow the fate of the NV30? Let’s check it out right now!
Radeon HD 2000: The Family Portrait
Before we proceed further to results of synthetic tests and image quality checks, let we finally mention the specifications of the Radeon HD 2000 family graphics cards and compare them with rivals.

As we see, the Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 chips differ from the Radeon HD 2900 pretty significantly, though, specifications of the HD 2600 were not lowered to be one fourth the power of the flagship GPU, something which Nvidia did with the GeForce 8600 GTS.
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