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MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 Graphics Card: A Jewel of HD 2600 XT Carats (page 19)

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by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 10/19/2007 | 09:16 AM ]

Futuremark 3DMark06

The gap between the ordinary and overclocked versions of Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 is even smaller in 3DMark06.

The gap is larger in the SM3.0/HDR tests, but barely noticeable in the SM2.0 tests.

Quite habitually, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT loses to the GeForce 8600 GT in the first test but equals it in the second test. As opposed to the second test from 3DMark05, there is no performance growth from the 512 megabytes of graphics memory installed on the MSI card.

The strong points of ATI Radeon HD 2000 architecture dealing with complex calculations show their best in the SM3.0/HDR tests: the MSI solution competes successfully with GeForce 8800 GTS in the first test and yields just a little bit to the rival in the second. Moreover, GPU overclocking results into a more significant performance improvement than in SM2.0 tests, originating most likely from the complex maths shaders.