2400XT yields good 3Dmarks

WE HAVE RECEIVED a picture of a 3DMark score from a system running the late and upcoming ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT card. This board was planned to cost around $80, but in reality, you can expect prices to be way lower.

The 65 nanometre process is finally working, and we are not surprised to see retail prices around $60 or €60 for a 256MB GDDR-3 card with two DVI ports and a S-VHS out.

And if you're asking yourself what is the performance offered by the card, a reliable mole landed a screenshot in our inbox:

Screenshot speaks for itself, at least when synthetic testing is concerned...

As usual, take this result with a grain of salt as it wasn't tested by us, but all in all - not too shabby for a 7300 price-competing part, right? And sadly for Nvidia, it is a bit faster than its FUD slide claiming 2400XT will do 1262 3Dmarks and that 8400GS will score 1600. Well, that was a true part when 2400Pro is concerned, but 2400Pro costs $45.

Bear in mind that the performance of both relies on getting as powerful a CPU as possible, and all of these leaked benchmark results are usually conducted on very powerful (and expensive) processors. µ