Radeon HD 2400 Pro for AGP
As could be expected, many ATI partners – now heading a graphic group Advanced Micro Devices – is preparing a series of graphics cards ATI Radeon HD 2000 for graphic AGP port, which are equipped with personal computers to the previous generation. Along with Sapphire Technologies, which has cards, the company began selling GeCube.
The graphics card Ge Cube GC-RX24PGA2-D3, based on an ATI Radeon graphics HD 2400 Pro, equipped with 256MB of GDDR2 is already available in some stores in Tokyo, as reported by page Akiba PC Hotline. The cost of this news to around 95 dollars. It provides a very good opportunity to price ratio. It is particularly attractive in cases where someone wants to upgrade an older computer, which counts about three years or even more.
The graphics card Radeon HD 2400 Pro is fully compatible with DirectX 10 interface, is able to handle large monitors with high resolution and is equipped with advanced video engine. However, its performance should be better, and so that there is virtually no players will be able to play titles compatible with DirectX 10
Prophecy for the weakest and the market mainstreamowych accelerator compatible with DirectX 10 are not clearly specified. On the one hand, the overwhelming majority of AGP systems are equipped with old microprocessors, which are probably not able to work with Windows Vista, or games written for DirectX 10, which means that they can not be used in the latest task, and therefore they do not require any updates. On the other hand, if someone expects everything from the system are only slightly more advanced video playback, it may come with the help of modern graphics cards.
Apart from GeCube and Sapphire, Tul Corp. also. prepare graphics card based on a series of ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600, intended for systems equipped with an AGP bus. The new products are to appear under the name of PowerColor.