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The master card is responsible for "fusion" of the images between the two boards and that can be done in a number of varieties. The master board will, on its terms, prepare its image and then sends off both to a compositing engine that is processed on the master board. ATI is producing a digital image from the DVI output of the slave card and then sends it to the large connector (DMS-59) on the master board. Why is that cable needed ?) Well, ATI used it to composite images between the two cards.
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The high-end series required that Y-cable (great name because often I asked "Why". Just plug these cards preferably into a (2x) x16 PCI-Express lane Crossfire compatible mainboard and it should work.
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Ever since the Catalyst 6.5 drivers you'll be able to hook up similar Radeon X1000 series graphics cards from the low and mid-range segment, up to the X1600 without the need for a master card AND you do not need the Y-Cable.
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Most of you know this, but the previous generation products, except the X1950 Pro and the low-end segment, had to use an Y-Cable to be able to run Crossfire. The Radeon 2600 has native Crossfire so does the 2400 XT.Ĭrossfire means that you can hook up two graphics cards in your system, connect them and double up your 3D rendering power. And at 99 EUR that might not at all be a bad deal eh ? Highlighted bold is the Radeon HD 2600XT 256 MB DDR3 is the product most of you will buy. Radeon HD 2400PRO 256MB DDR2 PCI-e DVI TVout 44,95Īnd that makes the prices even more interesting and with all the memory configurations even more diverse.Radeon HD 2400PRO 512MB DDR2 PCI-e DVI TVout 54,95.Radeon HD 2400XT 256MB DDR3 PCI-e DVI TVout 59,95.Radeon HD 2600PRO 256 MB DDR2 PCI-e DVI TVout 69,00.Radeon HD 2600PRO 512 MB DDR2 PCI-e DVI TVout 89,00.Radeon HD 2600XT 256 MB DDR3 PCI-e DVI TVout - 99,00.Radeon HD 2600XT 512 MB DDR3 PCI-e DVI TV out 149,00.Radeon HD 2600XT 256 MB DDR4 PCI-e DVI TV out 149,00.Radeon HD 2600XT 512 MB DDR4 PCI-e DVI TV out 179,00.However these are manufacturer suggested retail prices, a week before writing this article at an online shop: Prices for the Pro will likely be set at a 99-129 USD pricetag with the XT somewhere at 179-199 USD. I tell you though, the XT is going to be interesting. That memory will be clocked at roughly 400 MHz for the Pro up to 1100 MHz for the XT models. This is where the cards will hurt from the most.Ĭonfigurations will differ, but you'll see 256Mb models based on DDR2, GDDR3 and even a GDDR4 memory. I was really hoping to see AMD be the first to go for a 256-bit wide memory bus but unfortunately just like the competition they are sticking to 128-bit. The third sign of the zodiac in astrology.A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere containing the stars Castor and Pollux.We're a bit unsure what it entails, but I can say with certainty that it is either a Crossfire package or dual-gpu based card as when you look up the word Gemini in the dictionary, you find the following: But again 800 MHz for a mainstream graphics card with such a large number of transistors is an all new record by itself.Īs mentioned in a previous chart, there will also be a Gemini version of the XT model. Now among board-partners and models this can and will vary a little. The Pro is to be clocked at 600 MHz and that XT at an amazing 800 MHz. From the numbers the cards look very interesting. We see a good number of shader processors 120 Stream Processing Units. The GPU core has 390 million transistors, which is a friggin lot for a mid-range product. The Radeon HD 2600 series will again be released in a two fold series again each with several configurations, a Pro and an XT version with each in that series containing submodels with 256 and 512MB configurations.
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You insert two of these cards in a compatible mainboard, apply the two Crossfire bridges, enable it in the Catalyst driver and you are home-free. Have a look at some photos and you'll see the new recently introduced Crossfire connectors (bridged just like NVIDIA's SLI connector). Here's also where the Crossfire fun starts.
We'll explain this a bit better in the coming pages.
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Full 1080P HD decoding? Not an issue, seriously not an issue at all! We see the Avivo HD technology for hardware HD video processing with 5.1 audio over HDMI. It's again a fully DX 10 ready product and can do everything the 2400 series can, yet a tad better and faster. The HD 2600 series is probably what you guys will buy the most.