Monday, September 10th 2007

AMD to Upgrade Radeon HD 2400 and 2600

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AMD is planning two new graphics chips, the RV635 and RV620, upgrades of its entry-level and mid-range ATI Radeon HD 2000 series products. The RV635 and RV620 are upgrade versions of the Radeon HD 2400 (R630) and 2600 (R610). The new chips will adopt a 55nm process, compared to 65nm of the previous chips, and will have core frequencies increased to 800MHz. The chips will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). In addition, the new video cards will also support DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1 and PCI Express 2.0, while output will be upgraded to include Display Port. AMD schedules to provide EVT (engineering validation test) samples of the RV635 and RV620 chips in October and will launch in January next year. RV635 and RV620 will each come in XT and Pro versions. Although the official market names are not yet set, the cards are likely to be named Radeon HD 2650 and 2500.
Source: DigiTimes

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42 Comments on AMD to Upgrade Radeon HD 2400 and 2600

#26
InnocentCriminal
Resident Grammar Amender
Aren't these categories based on price and not just the specifications of the card? I'd class the X1950 Pro as a mid-range card purely on it's price. So it has more features and faster clock speeds - still cost me the same as my X1600 Pro.
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#27
[I.R.A]_FBi
Tatty_OneUpgrades after just a few weeks of the origional product launch! :eek: Thats gotta tell you something about those particular cards!
no they were jsut late to launch .. thats why ..
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#28
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
casper250cSee now your confusing the way it is considered mid-range.. Yes compared to any x16x0 class card it IS in fact a highend card but in the 1950 class it still is nothing more than midrange.. Again its like the 9800 series, the plain 9800 was a midrange for IT's class but considered highend compared to say a 9500 series card but still it was merely a midrange compared to a 9800XT..
Your comparing apples and oranges if you jump between classes like that my friend it would be like saying the 1950XT is lowend compared to a 2900XT.. For the 1950 class the pro is midrange nothing more..
See now you are trying to make it more complicated than it needs to be. Anything marked 9800 was part of the high-end class. You can't say the 9800 was mid-range because it performed worse than the 9800XT and ignore the rest of the generation of graphics cards:banghead:. The 9800 was a high-end card, which is why it carried the 9800 name, if it was a mid-range card it would have been called a 9600.

And no, it isn't comparing apples and oranges to jump between the x1950 and x1650 etc class, they are the high-end and mid-range classes, that is exactly what we are discussing. The x1950 class is ATI's high-end class, all cards in it are high-end cards, the x1650 class is ATI's mid-range class, all cards in it are mid-range. That is the whole purpose of the class system.
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#29
Scrizz
flashing my 9800pro to a 9800XT was the best thing ever!
....wish I could do the same with my x1950GT
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#30
effmaster
Scrizzflashing my 9800pro to a 9800XT was the best thing ever!
....wish I could do the same with my x1950GT
flashing??:wtf::wtf::confused::confused:
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#31
Scrizz
effmasterflashing??:wtf::wtf::confused::confused:
you know, show it the light of day :eek:
:laugh:
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#32
effmaster
Scrizzyou know, show it the light of day :eek:
:laugh:
oh you replaced your 9800pro with a 9800XT i was thinking you had hacked into the bios or something which was why i was confused:toast:
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#33
rodneyhchef
Scrizzflashing my 9800pro to a 9800XT was the best thing ever!
....wish I could do the same with my x1950GT
erm, you can flash a GT to a pro assuming it will run at the clock speeds of the pro (mine does)
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#34
Scrizz
yeah i can do that to, but WE can't flash pro to XT
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#35
rodneyhchef
Yeah the chip just doesn't have the extra pipes. :( (or the laser cut is inaccessible)
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#36
Scrizz
effmasteroh you replaced your 9800pro with a 9800XT i was thinking you had hacked into the bios or something which was why i was confused:toast:
I did change the pro bios for the XT bios
i had the R360 core ;)
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#37
Scrizz
the 9800 series was the shizzz..
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#38
effmaster
ScrizzI did change the pro bios for the XT bios
i had the R360 core ;)
So you can make a graphics card it is another name of a graphics card (note i know you can overclock the bios and such) but i thought that the midrange cards of most series were just watered down versions of the higher up cards just with certain parts locked up like system bus speed being 128 instead of 256 or even 512:wtf::wtf: and so if this is true then that means im gonna be able to buy like a cheap graphics card to run the same way its better counterpart can without having to cool it in any way extra at all, that just doesnt seem right. I figured you could only overclock something without putting in extra cooling only about 100-250 mhz on the cpu?
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#40
Tatty_Two
Gone Fishing
rodneyhchefYeah the chip just doesn't have the extra pipes. :( (or the laser cut is inaccessible)
Thats cause they are different cores, the GT and Pro share the 570 core, the XT is the 580.
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#41
Scrizz
boy i wish they had a X9800pro... lol
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#42
devguy
Scrizzboy i wish they had a X9800pro... lol
A new 9800 might not be so far away should Nvidia not change their naming scheme.
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