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AMD Launches World's First Mobile DirectX 11 GPUs
J. Dzhugashvili writes "Less than 4 months after releasing the first DX11 desktop graphics card, AMD has followed up with a whole lineup of mobile graphics processors based on the same architecture. The new Mobility Radeon HD 5000 lineup includes four different series of GPUs designed to serve everything from high-end gaming notebooks to mainstream thin-and-light systems. AMD has based these processors on the same silicon chips as its desktop Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards, so performance shouldn't disappoint. The company also intends to follow Nvidia's lead by offering notebook graphics drivers directly from its website, as opposed to relying on laptop vendors to provide updates."
1995 called and wants their "ATI drivers are crap" comment back.
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Is this 1990 again? We are back to RISC vs CISC? Intel and AMD showed that decoding CISC to RISC microps can be just as fast as RISC. They gain some performance advantage on the instruction cache hit rate vs pure RISC at the expense of some hardware logic(This only comes into play when compared to very low power devices)
2010 called and wants their ATi card to run stable and stop crashing in any number of PC games: Borderlands, Saboteur etc. There have been public known issues with the 5xxx line of their cards causing system locks because of poor drivers and incompatibilities. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/03/borderlands-glitch-watch-2009-radeon-powered-pc-crashes/ http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101665 etc. etc.
1995 called and wants their "ATI drivers are crap" comment back.
Obviously you have never tried running Linux on a system with a ATI graphics card.
The Microsoft tool's dilemma: Should I stop making money selling software, or risk being called a Microsoft tool by an anonymous coward on /. (who writes iPhone apps, no vendor lock-in there of course).
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Only all the AAA games on Windows, but clearly you are far more important than them.
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