Mobility 9800 ... when?

[Tommouse]

http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=33348&page=1&pp=15

Anyone hear of anything? I really would like to get one of these in a 2.0 Dothan, a gig of ram with a 15.4 Widescreen. Doubt it will happen anytime soon but I'm dieing to know if there is any more information out there.

BTW - I'm not buying the big bulky Dell POS

 

[manko]

Sorry, I haven't heard anything more than has been mentioned there and in the other thread in their "Notebook General" section.

I follow Notebook Forums too and that's usually where you'll get the first and most up-to-date info.

 

[Tommouse]

Well someone got their hands on it and ran 3dMark ... I know not the best benchmark but it's all I've found so far.

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In the new mobile diagram chip Mobility Radeon 9800 is not - to expect as from the name - the technology of the Desktop-Radeon-9800, but those of the successor Radeon X800; thus a complete diagram map generation is jumped over internally.

In relation to the past Top model with the mobile diagram chips, the Mobility Radeon 9700 pro, the new Top model loses 100 MHz chip clock (now 350 MHz), doubled however the number of the Vertex Shader (on 4) and pixel Shader (on 8). In addition the memory binding with 256 bits is twice as broadly laid out - and the memory (to 256 MByte) runs with 300 MHz (effectively 600 MHz) likewise faster.

 

[manko]

This was just posted over on Notebook Forums:

Gamers-Depot Mobility Radeon 9800: First Look

The Mobility Radeon 9800 looks to add more distance as it?s essentially an X800 core GPU with eight pixel and four vertex pipes ? nothing to sneeze at by any standard.

Both the desktop and mobile teams collaborated on this new GPU ? we can all thank ATI for purchasing ArtX a few years ago for all the kick-ass technology we?ve seen from them since. By having both teams working on it, ATI was able to quickly harness the expertise of each group ? giving the 9800m a quantum leap in both features and performance over previous generations.

Dell Inspiron XPS
3.2GHz P4
1GB DDR400
WinXP Pro w/ SP1

3DMark03: 5448
3DMark03 - 1600x1200 4x AA/8x Anisotropic: 1412

Painkiller 1.2

1600x1200 4x AA/8x Anisotropic: 51.16 fps

Call of Duty

1600x1200 4x AA/8x Anisotropic: 48.4

 

[manko]

ATI Unveils Mobility Radeon 9800 on ExtremeTech

This new mobile GPU moves mobile gaming forward by a sizeable leap, but also won't likely adorn many low-end or light laptops. Instead, look for it in the big, heavy-chassis gaming monsters from Dell, Alienware, and VoodooPC.

What we find is that the Mobility Radeon is about 60% faster in terms of the overall score than its predecessor. Again, going from one generation to another, this represents a tremendous performance gain. This biggest single-game gain was in Halo, where the 9800 was 88% faster than the 9700.

This GPU will be available in Dell's high-end Inspirion XPS gaming laptop. For current Inspirion XPS owners who want to upgrade, Dell will have a program in place where you can have your laptop upgraded for $399.

Mobility Radeon 9800 previewed

Imagine a laptop chip that can not actually fit in all notebooks, just in thick ones, but with almost double performance then before.

It's for "desknote" as the card is almost half the size of Radeon X800 generation of cards. You definitely cannot plug this into any thin and light or medium size notebook.

There will be only a few design wins on this chip since one manufacturer is exclusively locked into this design and the M24 PCI Express core is just around the corner.

 

[Juice Box]

I have the mobility 9700 128mb with a 1.7 centrino and i got well over 4800 3d marks, which i thought was pretty good.

 

[JWMiddleton]

I ordered a Dell Inspiron XPS with the Radeon 9800 Mobility and 256MB of vidram. It is suppose to ship by 8/20.

 

[animekenji]

Dell has an exclusive contract for the first 4 weeks of availability. You won't see any others before the end of Aug, beginning of Sept. at the earliest.

 

[NeBaWONG]

how do they get the Mobility 9600 into IBM 42T....

 

[Feneant2]

I am fairly sure I saw someone on the notebook forum who ran a benchmark (unless he was pulling our chain) and he only had maybe 10% higher than the 9700 mobility.

Personnally, I just bought a 9100 and did not pay the extra for a mobility 9800 as I don't see myself playing Doom 3 or something similarly graphically intensive on a laptop... I'll run a few benchmarks when I receive it as I configured it for gaming less the 9800.

 

[manko]

Originally posted by: Feneant2
I am fairly sure I saw someone on the notebook forum who ran a benchmark (unless he was pulling our chain) and he only had maybe 10% higher than the 9700 mobility.

That's incorrect.

There are plenty of reviews and a handful of first-hand reports that show a 40-50% performance increase over the 9700 in a wide range of games and benches.