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AnandTech Reviews ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000

Posted by timothy on from the portable-graphics dept.

Mike Bouma writes "AnandTech has reviewed ATI's latest mobile graphics solution. According to the reviewer this small and energy efficient chip is the new king when it comes to mobile graphic chips for Notebooks. Also John Carmack is apparently very positive about the chip and also stated that Doom 3 will be able to run smoothly with this new Radeon chip."

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  1. i'll believe it when i see it.... by wuchang · · Score: 2, Informative

    With the updated drivers, my Thinkpad X22 with an ATI Mobility still can't play Counter-Strike for more than 3 minutes before getting screwed up. ATI is notorious for having crappy drivers.

  2. Re:Why? by be-fan · · Score: 3, Informative

    He he. I'm sitting here on my Inspiron 8200 with its 1600x1200 resolution, 25ms pixel response (no ghosting, even in Quake3) and thirty degrees of freedom in either direction. Laptop LCDs have come quite aways since 1990. Plus, there's talk that the Inspiron 8200's might be upgradable, video-wise :)

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  3. Re:Why? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Informative

    I must back up be-fan. I'm using an Inspiron 8200 with a GeForce 440 Go video card and the Dell Ultrasharp display, which gives you super refresh rates and no ghosting. My current online crack addiction is multiplayer Soldier of Fortune.

    If you're going to get a laptop and you still want to play the higher end games, then there's really no excuse not to get an Inspiron with the Ultrasharp display. Of course, the biggest advantage with Inspirons is that you can upgrade the graphics card by calling Dell and having the new card shipped out. True, you don't get the wide range of choices like you would with a regular PC, but then there are trade-offs with laptops.

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  4. Re:I've often wondered why Carmack liked ATI .... by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err..."up to" 25%. 3DMark scores shot up, but pretty much every game benchmarked showed marginal improvements.

    Please don't buy the hype before seeing the reviews.