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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

This is a DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI and direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS graphic card for laptops. This would mean that the card is able to represent all modern games in medium resolutions and without Antialiasing without motion interruptions.

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 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.

In games the HD 2600 positions itselft between GeForce 8600M GS and GT. Crysis and World in Conflict are only in low details fluently playable.

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMobility Radeon HD 2600
CodenameM76
Pipelines120 - unified
Core Speed *500 MHz
Shader Speed *500 MHz
Memory Speed *600 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 Sizemedium sized
Date of Announcement14.05.2007
Information65 nm Fertigung
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: 13003, avg: 15772, max: 18500 Points
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3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 6825, avg: 7940, max: 8817 Points
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3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 5112, avg: 5997, max: 6766 Points
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3DMark 06:
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      min: 2910, avg: 3134, max: 3468 Points
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Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 2238, avg: 2659, max: 3164 Points
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- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 26 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.

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): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - 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 med.. - more...
F.E.A.R. 2 (2009): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - 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): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - 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 low. - more...
Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Crysis - GPU Benchmark
Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
20.5  fps
med.:
10 10.6 10.7 ~ 10 fps
high:
6.1  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
Crysis - CPU Benchmark
Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)
low:
16 23.2 ~ 20 fps
med.:
9.6 12.4 ~ 11 fps
high:
6 5.9 ~ 6 fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
World in Conflict - Benchmark
World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)
med.:
18  fps
high:
5  fps
» With most tested laptops not playable.
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): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...
Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...
Quake 4 (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R. (2005)
low:
90 164 173 202 ~ 157 fps
med.:
14 51 73 73 ~ 53 fps
high:
10 18 19 24 ~ 18 fps
» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..
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:
83.3  fps
med.:
85.7  fps
high:
83.4  fps
ultra:
67.6  fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo
Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)
high:
244.1 246.2 258 318 ~ 267 fps
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

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

Notebook reviews with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 graphics card

Acer Aspire 7720G (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 17.1")
» Acer Aspire 7720G - External Review

Asus A7k (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 17.1")
» Asus A7k - External Review

Asus F3SA (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 15.4")
» Asus F3SA - External Review

Asus G2K (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64, 17.0")
» Review Asus G2K Notebook - Review
» Asus G2K - External Review

Asus W2W (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 17.1")
» Asus W2W - External Review

Asus X52SA (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 15.4")
» Asus X52SA - External Review

Asus X53KA (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64, 15.4")
» Asus X53KA - External Review

Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook N6460 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 17.1")
» Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook N6460 - External Review

Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook N6470 (Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 17.1")
» Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook N6470 - External Review

Gateway M-152XL (Intel Core 2 Duo T8300, 15.4")
» Gateway M-152XL - External Review

HP Compaq 8510p (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 15.4")
» HP Compaq 8510p - External Review

Lenovo IdeaPad Y710 (Intel Core 2 Duo T9300, 17.1")
» Lenovo IdeaPad Y710 - External Review

MSI Megabook GX610 (AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53, 15.4")
» MSI Megabook GX610 - External Review

Toshiba Satellite A210-16Y (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 15.4")
» Toshiba Satellite A210-16Y - External Review

Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, 16.5")
» Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD - External Review

Toshiba Satellite P200-1EE (Intel Core 2 Duo T5250, 17.1")
» Toshiba Satellite P200-1EE - External Review

Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7479 (AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64, 17.1")
» Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7479 - External Review

Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 15.4")
» Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 - External Review

Toshiba Satellite Pro P200 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 17.1")
» Toshiba Satellite Pro P200 - External Review

 

Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2010-02- 3)