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Chalk up another impressive performance for the RX2600XT Diamond Plus.
The RX2600XT outruns the 8600 GT/GTS cards, even with AA enabled. The high-quality textures used in this intensive DX10 benchmark maybe worked for the 512MB, GDDR4 RX2600XT's advantage here.
I guess the catch is, at 10-15 FPS, these are not very playable framerates we are talking about here -- but nonetheless, as a measure of raw DX10 horsepower, the RX2600XT does quite well. This demanding Call of Juarez benchmark was run on 'high' quality setting. At a 'low' quality setting, it seems likely that the RX2600XT's performance lead over the 8600 GT/GTS would be maintened -- and at a playable framerate.
At the 1600x1200 resolution, without AA, the RX2600XT even nips at the heels of the Asus EN8800 GTS 320 MB. That's noteworthy -- from all of our tests this year, I can't remember any other mid-range card coming so close to catching an 8800 GTS.
That's it for the benchmarks. We had a real mixed-bag of results for the RX2600XT -- let's see what conclusions we can draw.
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Just thought id say, While the review was accurate at the time. Most of the performance issues from ATI/AMD Were driver related.
Ive owned both the Diamond and Diamond+, im currently using the Original Diamond on my Development Machine Temporarily and it easily keeps up with my EVGA 8800GTS320(G80){Science Box} at low resolutions(5-10fps lower average).
Its not a mid-range card by today's standards, but its still faster than nearly any low-end card still on the market today. But at a much better price-point.
out of Curiosity, i did benchmarks with the same games and applications you did in 2007. But this time running the 12.1 Catalyst Drivers. I wagered 46.2% average increase in FPS on high, through out all of those games...
I only wish i would of spent the extra $27/USD at the time to get the Diamond+ instead, as right now i would be better off.
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On a side note, the Diamond FAR outperformed my own BFG Geforce 8600GTS i have. I recycled it recently because its performance wasnt any near comparable.