Gigabyte Radeon HD2400 XT Review

ajmatson - April 23, 2008
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Testing:

To effectively test the Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400 XT video card, I am going to run it through a series of gaming benchmarks to see how well it scores. I will also compare it to another ATI HD card, the PowerColor HD 3450, to see how it compares to a similar card, in terms of speed and performance. All hardware will be run at their stock speeds, to ensure no variables will contaminate the scores and both cards will be run on the exact same setup. The only changes will be to the HD 2400 XT card itself during the overclocking phase described below.

Testing Setup:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16HGz (333 x 9.5)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X38-DS4 w/ BIOS version F2
Memory: Mushkin Redline XP2-8000 2x2GB @ 1066MHz 5-5-5-12
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400 XT w/ Catalyst Version 8.3
Power Supply: Ultra X2 750w Extreme Edition
Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 320GB SATA
Opticals: Lite-On 8x DVD+/-RW
O/S: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

Comparison Video Card:

PowerColor HD 3450

Overclocking:

Overclocked settings:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16HGz (333 x 9.5)
System Memory: Mushkin Redline XP2-8000 2x2GB @ 1066MHz 5-5-5-12
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400 XT @ 796MHz on the GPU & 495MHz on the memory.

To overclock the Gigabyte Radeon HD 2400 XT, I went in to the overdrive section of the Catalyst Control Center. To my surprise, any time I tried to raise either the memory or GPU clocks and test them, they automatically defaulted to the stock speeds. I was scratching my head and tried another card and used the CCC again and it worked. Since it had to be the HD 2400 XT not allowing the overclock, I opened RivaTuner and tried again to raise the clock speeds. This time it worked. I was able to raise the clock speeds to 800MHz on the GPU and 500MHz on the memory, stable, using RivaTuner. Anything over those, I started to get freezing and blue screens, so the overclocking benchmarks will be run at 800/500MHz speeds.