ATI Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 Performance

Name: ATI Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 Performance - Page 9
Brand: ATI

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 11:55 AM EDT

For our next set of performance metrics, we spent some time overclocking the Radeon HD 2600 XT, 2600 Pro, and 2400 XT using the clock frequency sliders available within ATI's Catalyst drivers, under the "Overdrive" menu.

Overclocking the Radeon HD 2600 XT, Pro and 2400 XT

(3D Video Cards) + Overclocking = Even Faster Cards

To find each card's peak core and memory frequencies, we used the automated utility built-into Overdrive and then tried to raise the GPU and memory frequencies further until our test system was no longer stable.

When all was said and done, we were able to take the Radeon HD 2600 XT up from its stock GPU and memory speeds of 800MHz and 1100MHz, respectively, to 855MHz and 1175MHz. The 2600 Pro was able to hit a GPU speed of 660MHz and a memory speed of 550MHz, and the 2400 XT peaked at 700MHz for the GPU and 900MHz for the memory.

While each card was overclocked, we re-ran a couple of high-resolution benchmarks and saw marginal gains of about 0% to 9%.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com