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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT

This is a DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI and direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphic card for laptops. It is a higher clocked version of the HD 2600/2700 It appeared for the first time in the desktop replacement laptop HP Pavillion HDX 20" and showed good benchmarks (accompanied by Intel T7700 Core 2 Duo processor). The performance lies a bit over the 9500M GS middle class graphics card. Modern DirectX 10 games are playable but not with highest details.

Due to the Avivo HD videoengine  the Chip accelerates HD Video like HD DVD, Blu-ray (Video Decoder for H.264/AVC, VC-1, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX Video Codecs). Furthermore PowerPlay 7.0 brings longer battery runtimes. Furthermore, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT is certified for Windows Vista (for the Aero user interface).

Technically, the chip owns 120 stream processors which are able to manage vertex-, geometric or pixelshader operations. Therefore DirectX 10.0 and Shader Model 4.0 are supported. To be mentioned is also the 256 bit wide ringbus.

Compared to the Deskto HD 2600 XT the Mobility version is slower clocked and therefore a bit slower.

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMobility Radeon HD 2600
CodenameM76-XT
Pipelines120 - unified
Core Speed *700 MHz
Shader Speed *700 MHz
Memory Speed *750 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeDDR2, GDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory256+ MB
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Transistors390 Million
technology65 nm
FeaturesAvivo HD Video, PowerPlay 7.0, Programmable Tesselation Unit (meant for Direct X 10.1)
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement14.05.2007
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityrade...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 24515, avg: 24515, max: 24515 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 11505, avg: 11873, max: 12240 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 8268, avg: 8769, max: 9030 Points
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3DMark 06:
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      min: 4002, avg: 4120, max: 4264 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 3337, avg: 3362, max: 3387 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 11 benchmarks

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
CoD Modern Warfare 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Risen (2009): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Need for Speed Shift (2009): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Colin McRae: DIRT 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Anno 1404 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Sims 3 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
F.E.A.R. 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Left 4 Dead (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Far Cry 2 (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Crysis Warhead (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Racedriver: GRID (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...
Command and Conquer III (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Call of Juarez Benchmark (2006): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion (2006): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
F.E.A.R. (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
Quake 4 (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
World of Warcraft (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...
Counter-Strike Source (2004): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Doom 3
Doom 3 (2004)
low:
149.4  fps
med.:
150.3  fps
high:
137.4  fps
ultra:
102.3  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List

Gaming Performance

The following  gaming benchmarks are taken from our German One C7000 review which was equiped with a T7500 CPU.

Battlefield 2: 1680x1050, highest, 4xAA: 40 fps -> fully playable
Battlefield 2142 : 1680x1050, highest, 4xAA: <20 fps -> not playable (smallerresolution and details is fully playable)
Call of Duty 4: 800x600, med: 38 fps -> fully playable
Crysis: 800x600, med: 36 fps -> playable

Notebook reviews with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card

Acer TravelMate 7520G (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-66, 17.1")
» Acer TravelMate 7520G - External Review

HP Pavilion HDX (Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 20.1")
» HP Pavilion HDX - External Review

HP Pavilion HDX9000 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 20.1")
» HP Pavilion HDX9000 - External Review

HP Pavilion HDX9095EA (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 20.1")
» HP Pavilion HDX9095EA - External Review

HP Pavilion HDX9130eg (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 20.1")
» Short Review HP Pavilion HDX9130EG Notebook - Review

HP Pavilion HDX9130EG (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 20.1")
» HP Pavilion HDX9130EG - External Review

 

Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2010-02-15)