Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark05

The increased GPU and memory frequencies help the MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 overcome the 11.000 points mark, but it scores a mere 269 points more than the ordinary ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4. If expressed in percent, the performance growth is negligible.

The MSI card behaved just as you could expect in the first and third tests but the double amount of graphics memory (in comparison with the reference card) shows its worth in the second test, which it did not in the gaming tests. Anyway, the MSI card didn’t reach the level of the GeForce 8600 GTS.