Friday, August 3, 2007
Performance Class 2
ATI Mobility Radeon X1700
The graphic card ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 for notebooks is the successor of the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. It achieves a higher performance with same current consumption due to strained Silicon. Due to additional pixel- and vertex-pipelines the performance is clearly above the X1600 and therefore sufficient for current games with medium and high settings. The direct competitor ought to be NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700.
Also a XT variant with a probably higher clock (codename M66-XT) might be planned.
Specifications
- performance class: 2
- series: Mobility Radeon X1000
- codename: M66-P
- pipeline: 24 pixel-pipelines and 8 vertex-pipelines
- clock: chip: 475 MHz, memory: 400 MHz
- memory: DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4, maximum: 256MB, bus: 128Bit
- directX: 9c, Shader Model 3.0
- features: Avivo Video and Display Engine, Powerplay 6.0, PCI-E
- application area: notebooks of medium size and medium weight
- other infos: 90 nm, 157 millions of transistors, Windows Vista compatible
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7600 GT for laptops. Depending on the used graphic memory and the clock speed, the performance is between the 7600 GT and 7900 GS video card. Therefore current games like Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander, or F.E.A.R can be played fluently with high details in a resolution of 1024 or similar. Gamers, who every time expect supreme frame rates, should wait for the 8800 series of NVidia.
8600M is one of the first-laptop-GPUs, which support DirectX 10 and accelerate the H.264-decoding of HD-movies.
The particularity of this video card are the "Unified Shader". Pixel- and vertex-shaders do not exist any more but 32 of the so called stream processors do the graphic work (which up to now pixel- and vertex shaders did).
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT
The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT video card for notebooks is a faster GeForce Go 7600 with 4 additional pixel-pipelines (12 instead of 8). This graphic card is suited for games, though some current games can't run with all details in highest resolutions fluently.
Specifications
- performance class: 2
- series: GeForce Go 7000
- codename: G73M
- pipeline: 12 pixel-pipelines and 5 vertex-pipelines
- clock: chip: 500 MHz, memory: 600 MHz
- memory: GDDR3, GDDR2, GDDR1, maximal upgrade: 256 MB, bus: 128 bit,
- directX: 9c, Shader Model 3.0
- features: PureVideo
- manufacturers site: product page
- application area: middle-weight and middle-big notebooks
- other infos: 90nm, 177 millions of transistors, PCI-E, 8 raster operation units (ROP), 8 texture mapping units (TMU)
