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Silence of the Radeon HD 2600: Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H Graphics Card Review (page 11)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 11/19/2007 | 11:51 PM ]

Performance in Third-Person Shooters

Tomb Raider: Legend

The Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H is as fast as its main opponent Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT in this test, but that’s hardly a success for any of them. The average speed of 17fps is far from the desired 30fps.

As you can see, none of the cards, except for the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, shows a good result at the highest graphics quality settings. Once again we have to recommend you to play with reduced settings. Modern inexpensive DirectX 10 cards cannot provide a good speed even in DirectX games.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

We try to get the highest possible image quality from each game, and choosing between FSAA and HDR we preferred the latter. That’s why the game was tested with anisotropic filtering only.

The shaders-heavy Splinter Cell: Double Agent favors GPUs with a unified architecture as the defeat of the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro suggests.

The ATI RV630 has a high computing capacity, and the game runs fast on the Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H at 1280x1024. The GeForce 8600 GT delivers a lower frame rate. The resolution of 1600x1200 seems to be playable on the Gigabyte card as well.