http://www.chip.de/artikel/c_artikel_12147449.html
whoa!
Nice chip - 8-pipe X800, 350 Mhz core clock, 4 VS, 256bit memory (300/600 Mhz), 5400 3dmark03. Nothing is said about power consumption, code name, manufacturing process...
Looks like it's dell exclusive until end of august.
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whoa!
Nice chip - 8-pipe X800, 350 Mhz core clock, 4 VS, 256bit memory (300/600 Mhz), 5400 3dmark03. Nothing is said about power consumption, code name, manufacturing process...
Looks like it's dell exclusive until end of august.
I'll wonder when will we see the nvidia nv4x mobile?chip translated by mczak said:Quantum Leap for 3D-Laptops
CHIP Online took a look at the new Dell Inspiron 9100 - the first notebook with ATIs new mobile graphic chip Mobility Radeon 9800. 3D graphics on laptops makes a huge leap forward.
Technology
Contrary to what the name suggests, the new mobile graphic chip Mobility Radeon 9800 does not contain the technology of the Radeon 9800, but instead the technology of the successor Radeon X800, so internally a whole graphic chip generation is skipped [Ed. note: they are obviously refering to the r350, though in my book this is not a different generation than r300/rv350].
Compared to the previous mobile top-model, the Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro, the new top model looses 100 Mhz chip clock (now 350 Mhz), but doubles the number of vertex shaders (to 4) and pixel shaders (to 8) [Ed. note I think it's incorrect to refer to pipelines as shaders, but hey I didn't write it]. Furthermore, the memory bus width has been doubled to 256 bit - and the memory (up to 256 MB) is now running with 300Mhz (600Mhz effective) faster too.
Test system
CHIP Online got the new Dell Inspiron 9100 at its disposal for a preview (with P4/3.2Ghz, 512 MB DDR400 and 80 GB harddisk), in which the new graphic chip is used exclusively until the end of august - the price for Dell's gaming notebook should be just below 2000 Euro [Ed. note this probably means if it's available in the US too you could expect a price below 2000 USD].
Performance
The Mobility Radeon 9800 tops the performance charts of notebooks. Q3A delivered still a good 87.2 fps at 1600x1200 and 4xAA/8xAF, which allows very fluid gameplay. Aquamark3 delivered execellent 19.4 fps at the same settings, the complex UT2004 (Torlan-demo) got 30.5 fps - all top results.
ATIs newest chip thus delivers between 40 and 70 percent (!) higher framerates than the previous fastest mobile solution. 3DMark draws a similar picture: the Mobility Radeon 9800 beats its mobile 9700 Pro counterpart (with 128 MB ram) in an otherwise identically configured notebook at 3DMark03 (1024x768, 32 bit) with 5365 to 3370 points by a sizeable margin - an advantage of almost 60 percent. A similar lead (44% percent faster) is seen with 3DMark01SE, 17308 vs. 12016 points.
Conclusion
Such huge performance leaps are rarely seen - notebooks get closer to full blown desktop systems as far as gaming performance is concerned fast [Ed note love that quote, you can read it for every new generation...]. The price premium of around 180 Euro is definitely spent well for gamers. ATI though confuses its customers with the chosen name - "Mobility Radeon X800" would have served well [Ed. note I can't see how this is more confusing than Mobility 9700 was].
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