Radeon Mobility X1400 benchmarks?

[dredd2929]

I'm having a hard time finding gaming benchmarks for the X1400, will someone please point the way?

Thanks.

 

[jb20thae]

I'd love to see some too.

 

[jb20thae]

Looks like this card is a 4 pipe card

The x1600 jumps up to 12 pipes (and 16 for the x1800)

Is it safe to assume this card is a worse performer than the x700?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: jb20thae
Is it safe to assume this card is a worse performer than the x700?

Oh ya.

 

[jb20thae]

Will anything better ever be offered in their 15" laptops? Is the x1600 too different a form to fit?

 

[fbrdphreak]

The X1600 would fit just fine. In fact, the Thinkpad T60p's use a FireGL V5200 which is the workstation version of the MR X1600. Keep in mind that while the X1600 has 12 pipes, it has a relatively small numder of render output pipelines which limits its performance. The reason most mfrs do not use the X1600 in 15" notebooks is because (A) 15" and smaller machines are meant to have image of high battery life; the MR X1600 draws more power. and (B) because most 15" machines these days are budget oriented, and definitely not gaming oriented.

Laptop Gaming Benchmarks:
http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=37

 

[bearxor]

Thanks for that roundup fbrdphreak, it looks like the X1400 is significantly faster than a X600, which means it would be a worthwhile upgrade for those of us with X300's.

 

[jb20thae]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
The X1600... it has a relatively small numder of render output pipelines which limits its performance.

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=37

The render output pipelines have got to be twice the x1400, though, right?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: jb20thae

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
The X1600... it has a relatively small numder of render output pipelines which limits its performance.

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=37

The render output pipelines have got to be twice the x1400, though, right?

nope, same number.

basically, the x1300/x1400 are the same GPU as the x1600, except that the x1600 has 3x the number of pixel shaders. this is the same relation that the x1900 has to the x1800 (and why you could figure out what the R580 x1900 would be based on the RV530 x1600 while the x1800 was R520.

heck, the x1300 and x1600 aren't all that different from the 9600, except that they handle SM3 and the pieces don't work in traditional pipelines, but rather are load balanced.

 

[evenmore1]

hmm...yeah I was wondering the same thing. I was planning to get this laptop: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834110191

Should I try to get it?

 

[evenmore1]

How about GF 7400? Saw some on newegg...

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: evenmore1
How about GF 7400? Saw some on newegg...

it's another low end card, take a look at gpureview for the 7300 and you'll get the idea.

for some reason both ati and nvidia have decided that for notebooks they'll take their k300 chips, increase the clocks or ram (or something, i don't know what exactly) and call them k400.

it's probably a better convention than a string of random letters/words at least. (9600 pro turbo anyone?)

 

[fbrdphreak]

GF7400 should be around an X1400 in performance; its also a 4 pixel pipeline card. Nothing special

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
GF7400 should be around an X1400 in performance; its also a 4 pixel pipeline card. Nothing special

The 7400 should actually be worse than the X1400 since the 7400 only uses a 64-bit interface. The X1400 uses the 128-bit interface, so even though they should be about equal, the X1400 is the better choice for performance.

 

[JE78]

what about this laptop with the x1400 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115223

 

[PCBliss]

i was also looking at that laptop because of the dual core and the x1400.... but newegg also has an acer with a turion64 1.8ghz and an X700 for around the same price.

 

[dredd2929]

Well, I got the Toshiba because it was on sale for 25% off. I paid 1650.00 for a laptop that normally would cost 2200.00.

 

[6000SUX]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
The X1600 would fit just fine. In fact, the Thinkpad T60p's use a FireGL V5200 which is the workstation version of the MR X1600. Keep in mind that while the X1600 has 12 pipes, it has a relatively small numder of render output pipelines which limits its performance. The reason most mfrs do not use the X1600 in 15" notebooks is because (A) 15" and smaller machines are meant to have image of high battery life; the MR X1600 draws more power. and (B) because most 15" machines these days are budget oriented, and definitely not gaming oriented.

Laptop Gaming Benchmarks:
http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=37

Awesome. Thanks a lot.