SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD 2600 Pro 512 MB HDMI / dual DVI PCI Express Expert Reviews

A Radeon HD 2600 XT is a Radeon HD 2600 XT is a Radeon HD 2600 XT, right? Not if you're Sapphires engineering team

The Sapphire Radeon 2600 XT X2 1024MiB graphics card is, for all intents and purposes, two single-GPU 512MiB stitched together on to a single PCB. The advantage of such an individual card lies with excellent connectivity options from a board that takes up...

However, that's actually only half of the story for the Radeon HD 2600 XT - In recent weeks, a GDDR3 variant of these boards has also been released.  While the core architecture remains the same, these parts feature lower clocked GDDR3 memory compared to...

You really can't doubt that, thus far, ATI's Radeon HD 2000 series has been a given a very rough ride up against NVIDIA's equivalent GeForce 8000 series boards, with poor performance once anti-aliasing is enabled the order of the day

While AMD promised us a launch of their entire range of Radeon HD 2000 series parts back in May, the only part available in retail on launch day was the high-end Radeon HD 2900 XT part, leaving anyone looking for the latest and greatest in the mid-range w...

So, the numbers are in, and we've benchmarked ever conceivable aspect of the Radeon HD 2600 XT - Do we have a new DirectX 10 champion in the sub-£100 price range?  Sadly, the answer is - No, not really

After the disappointing performance numbers of the budget Radeon HD 2400 XT, we move up the ladder to the mid-range Radeon HD 2600 series with an overclocked version of the Radeon HD 2600 PRO from Sapphire.

Leading the charge for ATI in the mainstream DirectX 10 graphics card segment is its new Radeon HD 2600 XT, equipped with 256MB of GDDR4 memory. Is that sufficient against NVIDIA and its GeForce 8600 series? Find out as we take the Sapphire Radeon HD 2600...

We took a look at AMD's low-to-midrange DX10-supporting graphics cards last week and surmised that they had significant potential at the attractive price-points laid down by the green team and its partners

AMD and its partners are pitching a number of Radeon HD 2400/2600 SKUs at between £45 and £80. An appreciation of the underlying architecture informs us that the Radeon HD 2600 family will always be substantially faster in gaming than the cheaper 2400 ser...

The first DirectX 10 card in AGP format

Just like an alien creature in some 1950s B movie, AGP refuses to die.

We opened the week with a new review. This time it is the implementation of Sapphire for mid-range ATI, a HD2600XT with the plus of using GDDR4 memories. Would you give it some extra performance against the GeForce 8600?

-- Price - sink well-designed single slot - HDMI compliant - No external power

-- Small margin of overclock - especially with low performance filters

Like an alien in a'50s movie agp refuses to die. What nVidia and ATI also say, the demand for agp is such high that they gedwee new cards with the connector issue.

+ DirectX 10 for agp systems

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Do you have a agp system and want to switch to DirectX 10? Then the HD Sapphire Radeon 2600 Pro AGP card.