Thursday, May 24th 2007
Sapphire to Launch New HD 2600 XT ULTIMATE Edition Graphics Solution
Sapphire Technology has just announced that in addition to the new HD 2600 and HD 2400 series of graphics accelerators scheduled for release in July, the range will include the new completely passively cooled SAPPHIRE HD 2600 XT ULTIMATE Edition. The SAPPHIRE HD 2600 XT ULTIMATE Edition features the latest unified shader architecture with 24 shader pipelines, core clocks of 800MHz, a 128-bit memory bus and high speed GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.4GHz. Sapphire offers the HD 2600 XT Ultimate Edition in two memory sizes, 256MB and 512MB. Other family members include the SAPPHIRE HD 2600 PRO with a similar architecture, but using 256 or 512MB of GDDR2 memory. Also available are the SAPPHIRE HD 2400 XT and SAPPHIRE HD 2400 PRO, cost effective solutions with 8 unified shader pipelines and a 64-bit memory interface using GDDR3 and GDDR2 memory respectively. Sapphire is already shipping its new flagship model the SAPPHIRE HD 2900 XT. Other products in the family are scheduled for delivery in July.
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33 Comments on Sapphire to Launch New HD 2600 XT ULTIMATE Edition Graphics Solution
cya
sounds kind of weak...was expecting more....
Reminds me of Little Giants, where the snotty (as in full of snot bubbles) kid was wrapped up in bubble wrap and pushed around like a pinball ball.
:shadedshu .
also as soembody did mention earlier, some benches would be nice
looks WAY different to the sapphire... whats going on?!
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
* 120 stream processing units
24 Dedicated shaders, 120 Stream processors, which would REALLY kick ass.
even tho there maybe some despute over the quality of DHES type coolers. even tho ATi (& some Nvidia 7900GS series cards) did run with a stock cooler of very very similar design. reviews & also others would always say that HiS's stock coolers were always better & more quiet then the coolers on other brands....
ontop of that Ive never heard anybody complain about the quality, reliablility or the effectiveness of the HiS DHES coolers. on the other hand where ATi & Nvidia sits I hear a lot of complaints made daily about their stock coolers. mainly complaints about it sounding like a helicopter assualt when the pc is booted up or when gaming.
this is a complete unbias post. Ive runa plethora of cards from many manufacturers all execpt for HiS which is a bit of a pain to get hold of where I live.
I run a GeCube x1800XT with an A.C X2 cooler. Ive run sapphires, 3d Prophets, PowerColour but even if i aint tried it first time. HiS always seems to get my vote. they just look much better in general also. my personal opinion anyway.
Therefore the 24 x 5 = 120 stream processors for this card.
One thing that is bugging me though is the 128bit memory interface.
Considering the R600 has a full blown 512bit memory interface couldn't ATI have at least given the card a 256bit memory interface.