If you have ever been in the market for a graphics card, you are undoubtedly familiar with the constantly changing graphics card market. About every 8-10 months, new GPUs are introduced by NVIDIA and ATI, and after their introduction, dozens of graphics cards built by their add in board partners come to market. Because these add in board partners all use the same graphics chips supplied by the two major graphics card companies, they have to use their marketing savvy to create extra value and incentive for consumers to buy their products.
Over the years we’ve seen companies bundle the hottest new games, add new video connections, new cooling units, and even build their cards on unique colored PCBs. All of these strategies help to differentiate products from one another, and a company that has been doing this since their first line of X800 graphics cards is HIS, short for Hitech Information Systems. HIS has become widely known for using premium cooling solutions and pre-overclocking their graphics cards to provide a considerable amount of value and performance to gamers and enthusiasts alike.
Today we’ll be looking at one of the newest additions to the HIS product line, the ~$130 HIS Radeon HD 2600 Pro IceQ Turbo 512MB PCI Express graphics card. Join us as we take a closer look at the card and see how it stacks up to the competition in the $100-$150 graphics card space.
Model Name HIS HD 2600 PRO IceQ Turbo 512MB/256MB DDR2 PCIe
Chipset Radeon HD 2600 PCIe Series
ASIC Radeon™ HD 2600PRO GPU
Pixel Pipelines 120 stream processing units* (Unified)
Vertex Engines 120 stream processing units* (Unified)
Manu. Process (Micron) 65nm
Transistor Fill Rate
Memory Size (MB) 512 / 256
Memory Type DDR2
RAMDAC (MHz) 400
Engine CLK (MHz) 650
Memory CLK (MHz) 1050
Memory Interface (bit) 128
Memory Bandwidth
Max. Resolution 2560*1600
Bus Interface PCI-Express x16
VGA No
2nd VGA No
DVI Yes
2nd DVI Yes
TV-out No
HDTV (YPrPb component output) No
Video-in Yes
TV Tuner No
FM Tuner No
When we opened the HIS Radeon HD 2600 Pro IceQ Turbo’s box we found that the card shipped with a DVI to VGA adapter, an S-Video Cable, HDTV output cable, and an HDMI adapter. The HDMI adapter is a new addition to the Radeon HD 2000 series of graphics cards and allows you to output 5.1 audio and video to a HDMI ready television. Also included in the bundle is the standard user manual and driver disk, along with a paper that gives you access to Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch through Valve’s Steam service.
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