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.
Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Series
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| Codename | M76-XT | ||||||
| Architecture | RV6xx | ||||||
| Pipelines | 120 - unified | ||||||
| Core Speed | 700 MHz | ||||||
| Memory Speed | 750 MHz | ||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | ||||||
| Memory Type | DDR2, GDDR3 | ||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 256 MB | ||||||
| Shared Memory | no | ||||||
| API | DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 | ||||||
| Transistor Count | 390 Million | ||||||
| Man. Technology | 65 nm | ||||||
| Features | Avivo HD Video, PowerPlay 7.0, Programmable Tesselation Unit (meant for Direct X 10.1) | ||||||
| Notebook Size | large | ||||||
| Date of Announcement | 14.05.2007 | ||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | ati.amd.com | ||||||
Benchmarks
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doom 3 | 149.4 | 150.3 | 137.4 | 102.3 | ||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | |
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, 17.10", 3.8 kg
External Review » Acer TravelMate 7520G
HP Pavilion HDX9130EG: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 20.10", 7 kg
External Review » HP Pavilion HDX9130EG
HP Pavilion HDX9095EA: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 20.10", 7.1 kg
External Review » HP Pavilion HDX9095EA
HP Pavilion HDX: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 20.10", 8 kg
External Review » HP Pavilion HDX
HP Pavilion HDX9000: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 20.10", 7.4 kg
External Review » HP Pavilion HDX9000

