AMD on Tuesday officially confirmed the existence of two new graphics cards, which will enrich the market mainstreamowych efficient systems. It seems that the new card is capable of delivering a good performance, but, unfortunately, will be accessible only for a specified period of time and a limited number. The new products certainly will waive the possible demand from partners AMD graphics hardware based on the dual systems.

In contrast to previous expectations, the graphics card ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro has the same GPU ATI R600 equipped with 320 unified Shader Processors (SP), 16 texture units (TU), 16 render back ends (RBE) and 512 bit memory controller. A strong will of the frequency of 600 MHz – 724 MHz band instead of as is the case with HD 2900 XT model. Radon HD 2900 Pro also will retain 512 bit memory bus and can be equipped with 512 MB or 1 GB of GDDR3 memory taktowanej the 1600 MHz frequency, which is only a little slower than memory clock models HD 2900 XT.

Partners will sell AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro with 512MB of memory for ~ 250 dollars, while the models will be equipped with 1GB to the acquisition, as suggested by the producer price equal to ~ 300 dollars. Interestingly, some of the 1 GB version will be built on 12 “plate which could mean that it does not fit in smaller housings computers.

“ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro is available today, but in a limited number of resulting limits on supply,” he stresses AMD press release in a short statement.

The company AMD is criticized for a lack of a range provided for the standard 10 Direct The line of products is incomplete and leaves an empty field between tender for ~ 180 and 400 dollars. Therefore, the company responded to customer complaint and announced that the partners will sell a dual-chip ATI Radeon graphics HD 2600 X2 for around 250 dollars. It is intended to combat card NVidia GeForce 8600 GTS. However, at present, when sales went HD 2900 Pro for 250 dollars, not only revulsion to the attention of the weaker the Radeon HD 2600 X2 (in fact, even two systems of Radeon HD 2600 to a total of only 240 unified Shader processors compared to 320 in HD 2900), but also adversely affect decisions of potential purchasers of ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, as the XT model is only slightly more efficient than Pro.

Partners would rather not satisfied with the product, which does not fit into the current line, however, it appears that it does not pose a problem at the moment because the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro is an extremely limited offer.

The HD 2900 Pro is not something that AMD needs. They are only “defective” cards, which are not in a position to work with a frequency of 742MHz. What more is very small, about a few thousand around the world. In fact, orders for przyjmowaliśmy not only by a few days, “said a representative of the supplier card, which wished to remain anonymous.