Mobile GPU Q1/2004 Update - M10, M11, and NV36M

[manko]

Mobile GPU Q1/2004 Update - M10, M11, and NV36M

Some key points to keep in mind: NV36M is produced on a 0.13 micron process, is a full DX9 part, and is capable of performing twice the number of floating point operations over NV31M (Go56X0) and NV34M.

The fact that the Mobility Radeon 9600 can attain reasonable frame rates in Half Life 2 seems to suggest that M11 will surpass that marker, perhaps making AA and AF possible in HL2 while attaining reasonable frame rates.

...we should expect to see notebooks based on both GPUs out shortly; we expect within a month.

The desktop NV36 cards are much more promising, and we hope to see NVIDIA bring back some competition to the mobile GPU market.

Now go read the article for yourself!

 

[manko]

Andrew's full review of the M11 with benches: 🙂

ATI's Mobility Radeon 9700 - What's in a name?

Based on the R360 core, M11 is manufactured on a low-k dielectric 0.13-micron process, which makes it the first mobile GPU of this nature.

In AA and AF settings, the Mobility Radeon 9700 will perform better than the Mobility Radeon 9600 trio (in our case, an average of about 25%).

In terms of the performance delta of the desktop Radeon 9600 XT and Radeon 9700, the Mobility Radeon 9700 hits somewhere between the two in the context of the mobile segment.

ATI is launching with Acer, Gericom, Alienware, Voodoo PC, Medion, RockDirect, Packard-Bell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Targa, Wistron, Clevo, ECS, FIC, Quanta, Compal, Uniwill, and Asus. The first shipping notebooks will not be in the US market; instead, they will be in Europe.

THG Preview: ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 (M11)

 

[LaptopDude]

that card looks delicious...now how to get it into my lappy! 😀

 

[Frightcrawler]

heh, so the old rumors about the M11 ARE true...🙂