Experience True High-Definition Gaming in 1080p !

Are you ready for the next evolutionary step in HD gaming? Experience DirectX® 10 gaming and HD media PC features with the Sapphire ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 XT. No longer are you chained to the confining dimensions of traditional PC screens, step outside the ordinary and into a world of big screen HD content playback with HDMI support provided with the Sapphire 2600 XT. Experience next generation hardware that promises immersive high definition gaming for Windows Vista™ and DirectX® 10, while allowing for easy CrossFire™ multi-GPU upgradeability, to run the hottest titles of today and tomorrow. Delivering a fully loaded HD feature-set including support for ATI Avivo™ HD, HDMI connect ability, HD Audio and Blu-ray / HD DVD decoding via Universal Video Decoding technology, the Sapphire 2600 XT far surpasses the demands of the performance hungry Media PC. The Sapphire Radeon™ HD 2600 XT with its impressive hardware offerings such as: the much anticipated ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 XT GPU, support for up to 512MB of onboard memory, 128-bit memory interface, and PCI Express native support will empower even the casual user to experience big screen HD gaming on a budget and provide the rendering muscle to drive the feature rich Windows Vista™ 3D environment.

Hardware processed 1080p video playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVDs
Plug-n-play CrossFire™ upgradeability
HDMI with 5.1 surround sound audio (Important Information for Windows XP & Windows Vista users)
DirectX® 10 support
 
 
SAPPHIRE HD 2600XT AGP
 
  • 390 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process
  • 128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
  • Ring Bus Memory Controller
    • Fully distributed design with 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
  • Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
    • 120 stream processing units
      • Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
      • Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
      • Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
    • 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
    • Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
    • Shader instruction and constant caches
    • Up to 40 texture fetches per clock cycle
    • Up to 128 textures per pixel
    • Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
    • DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
    • High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
    • Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
    • Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
    • Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
    • Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
    • Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
    • 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
    • Physics processing support
  • Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
    • Shader Model 4.0
    • Geometry Shaders
    • Stream Output
    • Integer and Bitwise Operations
    • Alpha to Coverage
    • Constant Buffers
    • State Objects
    • Texture Arrays
  • Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
    • High performance vertex cache
    • Programmable tessellation unit
    • Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
    • Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
  • Anti-aliasing features
    • Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel)
    • Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
    • Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
    • Temporal anti-aliasing
    • Gamma correct
    • Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
    • All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
  • Texture filtering features
    • 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
    • 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
    • Bicubic filtering
    • sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
    • Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
    • Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
    • Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
  • CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
    • Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
    • Integrated compositing engine
    • High performance dual channel interconnect
  • ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
    • Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
      • High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
    • Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX video decode acceleration
      • Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform)
    • Avivo Video Post Processor
      • Color space conversion
      • Chroma subsampling format conversion
      • Horizontal and vertical scaling
      • Gamma correction
    • High Quality Video Post Processing
      • Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
      • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
      • Detail enhancement
      • Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
      • Bad edit correction
    • Two independent display controllers
      • Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
      • Full 30-bit display processing
      • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
      • Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
      • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
      • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
      • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
      • Hardware cursor
    • Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
      • Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)1
      • Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content2
    • Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
      • Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15361
    • HDMI output support
      • Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10801
      • Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
    • Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
      • Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
      • Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
      • Underscan and overscan compensation
    • MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
    • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
    • VGA mode support on all display outputs
  • PCI Express x16 bus interface
  • OpenGL 2.0 support

Disclaimer:
Product specifications subject to change without notice. Product bundle varies by countries, check local dealers for details.
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  • 390 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process
  • 128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
  • Ring Bus Memory Controller
  • Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
  • Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
  • Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
  • Anti-aliasing features
  • Texture filtering features
  • CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
  • ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
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    3 AWARDS 4


    XSR Value Award

    They are only a bit behind the 8600 in some tests - and ahead in others - but they are a good twenty quid cheaper, which does make a difference

    XSReviews.co.uk


    5 Stars Award


    Parkoz


    Seal of Approval

    The 2600 XT is looking like the one with the most value and potential. If you’re on a budget and looking to spend it all, then this Radeon HD is a decent choice.


    Best Value Award

    One card that has a lot going for it and if AMD continue to pump out the performance increases it's going to become even better value for money.

    TweakTown.com


    Value Award

    A great midrange card from ATI. It gives significant gains over the 8600GT for a similar price.