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NFS: Carbon

03:28 - Monday 17 September 2007 by Don Woligroski
Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: the, radeon, 2600xt, remixed
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NFS: Carbon

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The need for Speed: Carbon is one of those titles that favored the Radeon architecture in the DirectX 9 generation of cards, and this trend seems to continue in the DirectX 10 cards. However, the results are close and both cards can deliver playability at 1280x1024.

It’s the same story once AA and AF are added: the 8600 GT manages playable 1024x768 performance -if only barely - and the 2600 XT doesn’t hold up as well, although results are very close at the higher (and totally unplayable) resolutions.


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mactronix 19/09/2007 10:02
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How much more performance inprovement would it be sensable to expect from the drivers and partner overclocking?
Would it say get to the point where it would be viable for those with 7600gt and x1650xt cards to change over to these new "midrange cards" ?
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dev1se 11/10/2007 08:51
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Ive just upgraded from HD2600XT's (DDR4) in Crossfire mode and their performance as a single card solution were poor to say the least but very good in Crossfire (equal to that of HD2900XT/PRO on 3DMark06 - around 9,000-10,000 with 5000+ AMD)... but if you're upgrading from a 7600GT or X1650XT then I very much doubt there'll be much difference apart from the HD benefits. These cards are hugely limiting themselves with the 128-bit bus and it shows at high res's... maybe wait for the next wave of midrange cards to be released that could have 256-bit memory bus.

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