Initial Thoughts

With such severely limited testing time, given AMD's sampling policy for the hardware, and the significant software issues encountered along the way, it was barely worth running out with anything serious to meet today's NDA expiry date, and we nearly didn't push out anything other than pics and prices. C'est la vie.

The thing to take from today's launch piece is that the on-paper promise is there for both new tested products, and that their lineage in the R6-family is certainly clear, we just need more testing time to generate the full picture.

Hopefully the quick intro is enough to whet your appetite, and we'll be back as soon as possible with the rest. It's a cop out and we're well aware, but we're duty bound to push something out (sadly). We hope there's a snippet or two in the prior pages to be going on with.

We'll soldier on through the testing in the meantime and report back when done.

Product Lineup

As well as Radeon HD 2400 XT and Radeon HD 2600 XT launching today, officially, the rest of the HD 2000 family says hello as well, AMD fleshing out their D3D10 product offerings from top to bottom.

Radeon HD 2400 XT is a $79 full RV610 product at 700/800, whereas Radeon HD 2400 PRO uses the same chip and config at $59, just clocked slower.

Radeon HD 2600 XT with GDDR4 is $149, but with GDDR3 it's $129 (same amount, clocked slower) and Radeon HD 2600 PRO is $99, clocked slower on GPU and DDR2 memory still. All four have availability in the next two weeks, mid-way in to July, and we'll have the XTs analysed properly before then (thankfully).