F3SA-A1 ATI Mobility HD2600 Game and Benchmark

[GenTechPC]

Setup:

F3SA-A1
Vista Home Premium 32
T7500
2GB DDR2 667 (Factory installed is 1GB)
160G
ATI Mobility HD2600 512MB DDR2





There is no system information and it's known issue with ATI HD2600 according to Futuremark:

http://service.futuremark.com/suppor...id=14&fid=1311

I had to use -nosysteminfo command line in order to run 3DMark06.



Medal of Honor Airborne Demo

Setup:
F3SA-A1
15" WXGA 1280X800
T7500
2GB DDR2 667 (factory install is 1GB)
160G 5400rpm sATA

















Sega Rally Revo




















Call of Duty 4























Unreal Tournament 3 Demo

sound track is great!
















Crysis demo DX10 mode:
F3SA-A1
T7500
2GB RAM
ATI HD2600 512MB DDR2 (Catalyst 7.10)

Game setup (same settings as G1S-A1 I tested a while ago)

[fabarati]

What's the clock speeds of the memory and the core?

[JCMS]

lower than expected.

[fabarati]

It's the DDR2 version. It's supposed to perform up to par with DDR2 8600M GT. Which has more mature drivers than HD2600.

[odin243]

Yup, this is a very similar score to the DDR2 8600M-GT, considering the poor driver support for the HD2600.

[The Forerunner]

Thats at 1280 x 800 and the ati cards are known to perform better in 3dmark which does not reflect its in game potential.

[odin243]

Thats still low. Thats at 1280 x 800.

It's only 200-300 lower than a DDR2 8600M-GT at the same resolution, which could easily be rectified with better drivers.

[GenTechPC]

According to ATI the Catalyst 7.9 should improve the performance especially BioShock, I am going to download the mod driver to see if the score will be better.

[bigspin]

SM 2.0 score is very low compared to 8600M GT DDR2.
BTW I hope future drivers will perform better .

Someone please add some FRAPS screen shots

[rafiki6]

You guys should realize that the HD2600 was never meant to compete with the 8600M GT. After long development delays from ATI, they finally released it two months after the 8600M chip, and it performs somewhere between the 8600M GS and 8600M GT. So don't expect stellar performance out of it. It won't ever be as powerful as the 8600M GT.

I overclocked my 8600M GS with 256mb DDR2, to 650 Core, 550 Clock, using nTune and 163.44 modded drivers, and got the 3203 in 3DMark 06. So clearly it is very comparable in performance to the HD2600, when it is overclocked of course.