GeCube are shipping the dual HD 2600 XT

Friday 31st August 2007, 11:11:00 AM, written by Rys

GeCube have announced that their one-PCB Crossfire HD 2600 XT design is now shipping to the channel.

Pairing two RV630s with a dual-slot cooler, up to 512MiB of GDDR3 per GPU and internal hardware Crossfire, the board supports all the feature and performance goodies that one RV630 does, with a potential doubling in performance with supported games.

You get UVD, DirectX 10 support, HDMI support (presumably from any of the DVI ports, using the active dongle), and GeCube build the board with high-quality ESR caps. Knowing GeCube, the cooler is likely to work very well and quietly to boot, and if you don't want to run Crossfire then the board is also a way to get four DVI heads from one PCI Express slot, too.

Prices quoted by GeCube are $279 for the 512MiB-per-chip version, and $259 for the 256MiB-per-chip one. GeCube, if you're listening, make one that costs $20-30 more, has a black PCB and a black cooler with no Ruby sticker, and you have a customer.

Read the full press release in our PR section.

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Latest Thread Comments (5 total)
Posted by ShaidarHaran on Saturday, 01-Sep-07 15:33:08 UTC
Yay for quad CF (future) support!Now the question is: how well will quad CF run? I hope 2 of these puppies outperform a single HD 2900, else it's rather a waste...

Posted by Albuquerque on Monday, 03-Sep-07 05:02:40 UTC
The real question is, can I get one of these on AGP?

;)

couldn't resist

Posted by crystall on Wednesday, 05-Sep-07 07:48:35 UTC
Quoting ShaidarHaran
Now the question is: how well will quad CF run? I hope 2 of these puppies outperform a single HD 2900, else it's rather a waste...
Considering that the 2600XT seems to consume significantly less power than a 2900XT if two are able to match it in the same power envelope it could be somewhat interesting.

Posted by vertex_shader on Wednesday, 05-Sep-07 12:03:36 UTC
Looks like Sapphire release the dual card too, with gddr3 memory:
Quote
SAPPHIRE’s HD 2600 X2 can be configured with memory options of 512MB or 1GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 800MHz (1600MHz effective) and each GPU core is clocked at 800MHz. Development is complete and the card is available now to order by OEMs and to integrators building special projects requiring multiple display configurations. Retail availability will be planned according to regional demand.
The new HD 2600 X2 has four Dual Link DVI outputs that with CrossFire™ disabled can be used to drive four separate high resolution displays at up to 2560 x 1600, or with CrossFire™ enabled will drive a single display with considerably enhanced performance. It is HDCP ready and has TV Output compatible with the latest High Definition displays. Like other HD 2600 series products it also supports HDMI over the DVI interface with the correct HDMI Adapter.
The card is physically slightly taller than the standard ATX format. The HD 2600 X2 is compatible with platforms based on AMD 580X CrossFire, AMD CrossFire Express 3200, Intel 975X Express, Intel P965 Express and Intel P35 Express motherboard chipsets.
Image: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4426/sapphirehd26x2do9.jpg

Posted by vertex_shader on Wednesday, 05-Sep-07 12:04:53 UTC
Quoting Albuquerque
The real question is, can I get one of these on AGP?

;)

couldn't resist
HD2950pro coming in AGP version 2008Q1 :wink:


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