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Silence of the Radeon HD 2600: Gigabyte GV-RX26T256H Graphics Card Review (page 7)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

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

Call of Juarez

Things are quite different in Call of Juarez that values the GPU’s computing capacity. Gigabyte’s engineers didn’t reduce the GPU clock rate, and the performance of the GV-RX26T256H is about as high as that of the reference card.

Note that the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and Nvidia GeForce 8600 cannot deliver good performance even in the lowest of the tested resolutions, especially considering the low minimum of speed of each card. So, we again recommend you to lower the quality of visuals in Call of Juarez to have a comfortable speed.

The Gigabyte card is terribly slow in Call of Juarez DirectX 10. Although it is almost 30% faster than Nvidia’s solution, you just cannot play a first-person shooter at a speed of 7fps.

So, if you are choosing a graphics card that would permit to play upcoming games, you should think about buying a more advanced product. You’ll have to reduce the quality of graphics if you’ve got an ATI Radeon HD 2600.