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Silence of the Radeon HD 2600: Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H Graphics Card Review (page 6)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

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

Performance in First-Person Shooters

Battlefield 2142

Unfortunately, the silent operation of the card comes at the expense of the memory bandwidth. The Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H is considerably slower than the Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 in the first test. The gamer may find the speed too low even at 1280x1024 unless he lowers the level of detail or disables FSAA.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

This game’s engine doesn’t require a lot of computing resources from the graphics card, but seems to need a high speed of texture-mapping. As a result, the Nvidia GeForce 8 and the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro deliver higher performance than the newer cards from AMD.

You’ll have to disable full-screen antialiasing and, perhaps, some special effects to achieve a playable frame rate (i.e. 30fps) on a Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H.