ABIT RX600XT-PCIE
ABIT RX600XT-PCIE Video Card Features
Package bundle:
1. Video card: ABIT RX600XT;
2. Adapters: 15-pin D-sub/ DVI and S-Video/RCA;
3. Cables: S-Video and RCA-Composite
4. Software CD: Catalyst PCI-E, Acrobat Reader, DirectX 9.0b, PowerDVD 5
5. Highly detailed manual on the produce of ABIT made on RADEON RX Series PCI -E chips (in .pdf) plus two printed manuals of similar contents.
Now we are moving on to the most exciting part, - description of the board's features.
Design and layout
The video card is made by ABIT on the orange PCB, traditional for boards built on ATI chips. The power supply scheme and the PCB are in many ways similar to those for RADEON 9600XT.
The board offers 128 Mb DDR memory with the 128-bit data transfer bus all made as eight Hynix memory modules marked HY5DU283222 AF-25 made in the BGA form factor, and 2.5 ns access time, as you can see from the marking.
Half the memory chips are positioned over the front side of the card, with the other half on the reverse, which makes it resemble most 9600XT boards built on the RV360 chip where the positioning of memory chips is similar to what we see in this case.
Now a few words on the cooling system. On this board, it is made as a radiator whose base and heat-spreading fins are common for both the GPU and the four memory chips located near the GPU on the front side of the board, with an aluminum cap of the cooler.
In fact, we see that the radiators on the memory are more likely decorative items since the cover only the memory chips located on the front side of the board. The memory chips located on the reverse side are not equipped with whatever heat-spreaders.
That is an essential shortcoming, since the installation of additional radiators on the video memory has never been an issue.
The board offers a standard set of outputs: analogous, digital, and TV-Out.
The rated clock speed of the ATI RV380 core is 500 MHz. At first glance, it was difficult to get to it. The cooler is firmly fitted on the thermal paste applied over all the four front memory chips and the core itself. That is not an obstacle for true enthusiasts:
The general specifications for ABIT RX600XT-PCIE versus ATI Radeon 9600 XT are gathered in the following table:
| Video cards |
ABIT RX600XT-PCIE |
ATI Radeon 9600 XT |
| Code name |
RV380 |
RV360 |
| Chip technology |
256 bit |
| Process technology |
0,13 mkm low-k |
| Q-ty of transistors |
~77 mln |
~75 mln |
| Memory bus |
128 bit (DDR) |
128 bit (DDR) |
| AGP bus |
PCI-Express x16 |
AGP 1x/2x/4x/8x |
| Memory |
128/256 MB |
| Chip clock speed |
500 MHz |
500 MHz |
| Memory speed |
380 MHz
(760 DDR) |
300 MHz
(600 DDR) |
| Pixel pipelines |
4 |
4 |
| Textures per pipeline |
1 |
1 |
| Textures per texture unit |
16 |
16 |
| Vertex shader version |
2.0 |
2.0 |
| Pixel shader version |
2.0 |
2.0 |
| DirectX version |
9.0 |
| Antialiasing modes |
Multisampling
Maximum 6x |
Multisampling
Maximum 6x |
| Anisotropic filtering |
2/4/8/16x |
2/4/8/16x |
| Memory optimization |
Hyper Z III+ |
Hyper Z III+ |
| Optimizations |
SmartShader 2.0
SmoothVision 2.1 |
SmartShader 2.0
SmoothVision 2.1 |
| Q-ty of monitor outputs |
2 |
| Integrated RAMDAC |
2 x 400 MHz |
| External RAMDACs |
- |
| Bits per color channel |
10 |
| Special features |
Integrated TV-coder; FullStream
Adaptive filtering |
Integrated TV-coder; FullStream
Adaptive filtering |
Now we are getting round to assembling a test configuration:
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