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AMD releases DirectX 11 mobile processors
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) has released its line of DirectX 11 mobile graphics processors that it claims will bring improved graphics and application performance to Windows 7 laptops and peace in our lunchtime.
The Radeon HD 5000 Mobility series graphics cards are the fastest laptop processors ATI has released and can decode two Blu-ray streams simultaneously, if you're so minded.
Asif Rehman, product manager for AMD's mobile graphics business, said that the 5000-series cards outperform the older 4000-series graphics cards by up to 40 per cent.
The high-end 5800-series graphics card has 1.04 billion transistors and provides computing power of up to 1.12 teraflops, which AMD claims is the highest in the laptop category.
Certainly it is the first designed by AMD that uses the native hardware support for DirectX 11 tools that are built into Windows 7 by Microsoft. These tools offload multimedia tasks to graphics processors rather than using CPU power, which can speed up performance.
The chips support UVD2, which will allow laptops to decode two high-definition video streams on a single GPU. The older 4000 series chips were only capable of processing one high-definition and standard-definition video stream at the same time. The GPUs will also be able to play back Blu-ray video in the Windows Aero mode, a task which was difficult to handle on earlier graphics cards.
The cards consume less power in idle mode by adjusting the graphics engine and memory clock and thanks to the 40nm manufacturing process. Battery life on laptops can also increase with native support for AMD's Vari-Bright on the graphics cards. Vari-Bright was initially a software feature, but hardware support could reduce power drawn by up to 50 per cent compared to software. Each graphics card can support up to six displays.
AMD is the first company to announce laptop graphics cards that natively support DirectX 11. Most laptop graphics cards support either the older DirectX 9.0c or DirectX 10.1. AMD's rival, Nvidia, has talked about DirectX 11 graphics processors, but hasn't got around to releasing any hardware yet.
Notebooks with AMD's DX11 capable GPUs should start showing up in the shops in the first half of the year. µ
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Does that mean it can do 3D HDTV?
And can it run video games pretty well without being a complete ripoff at the cash register?
No, Knightshaver of unders... i did not even bother to "speculate" at WiKi sources. There is no indication of Mobility FireGL being converted to Mobility FirePro. plz do what u do best.
About freaking time. Now I just have to wait and see who puts one in a 18.4" notebook first. I'm not waiting for the yet-again-renamed nVidia 300-series mobile chips. Maybe I'll get something else when they finally release Fermi-based mobile chips in 2011 or 2012. Too bad AMD can't made a mobile CPU to wallop the Core i7, otherwise it'd be a sweet AMD/ATi notebook combo.
Oh, btw HP already has a HD5830 in the new Envy 15". Nice.
If ATI released the XGP this would be unnecessary. Release it already I have been waiting long enough
First, as already mentioned, there is no way you're getting a high-end desktop GPU into a Laptop and they never have. They've all been shrink refreshes that made compromises (still don't have a mobile G80 either). The main difference being that these are new AMD GPUs that deserve a new name, not just a refresh of the same 4770 chip from last generation.
And Mo, the FireGL line changed to the FirePro line, and there are HD4K FirePro GPUs out there M7740 in many mobile workstations, did you even bother to look at your WiKi source which describes it explicitly?
Just be happy there's something new to push mobile graphics forward (and even an external version of this chip for netbooks) otherwise we'd all still be stuck with intel Extreme Graphics and the old mediocre not even as good as the mid-range solutions.
Journalists must bash and thrash whenever AMD releases desktop versions like musrooms (currently DX11). Jurnos must demand on every such occasion Where is Mobile DX11, Where is Mobile DX11 FireGL, Where is integrated DX11. then they used to throw blame on 65nm/90nm and Ooo 40nm is right tech for mobility versions, what now when AMD is end-to-end sub-40nm. AMD complains Intel of CPU giant but AMD should peek into its own collars that upon every gpu generation the Mobile part is coming like after 6 months and in case of FireGL few people would know their exists no 4000 series Mobility FireGL, their is FirePro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units#Mobility_FireGL.2FFirePro_series
I blame journalists for similar behavior as political journalists do.
Gee Krissy Venden, where else have i seen that final comment you wrote about So Ronery?
and bernard, you're quite off...i suppose ATI and Nvidia should hire you to figure out the way to stuff a 1600sp 5870 into a laptop without dropping clocks to about 120mhz to keep heat in check...so you wondering why they use cut down architectures in their "trickery?" there ya go
920 is a smaller number than 7200 - but which Intel chip is quicker?
Only pure techno-dweebs like us would notice the numbering
90% of users have not got a clue
What ATI and nVidia do might 'not smell right', but it probably doesn't affect most purchase decisions (although the red & green teams would probably love to think it does)
Can I suggest that you go onto Youtube and watch Jen Hsun singing So Ronery in Team America to cheer yourself up?
It seems the 5800 series mobile chips are using the 5700 series desktop architecture. Even though Nvidia is also doing this, this is not an excuse.
AMD/ATI have a clear lead in GPUs. This would have been a good occasion to put an end to that sort of trickery