ATI's Mobility Radeon 9700 - What's in a name?
by Andrew Ku on February 3, 2004 12:50 AM EST- Posted in
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Halo
Since Half Life 2 isn't out, Halo still remains to be one of the best cases to test DX9 features.
Considering that we are testing out mobile GPUs, there isn't a significant need to turn up AA and AF for this title. The Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro still runs slightly under what we would call smooth game play, since it achieves 23fps in 1024x768 and 15.2fps in 1280x1024. ATI's new mobile GPU starts to make things much smoother as it actually does 30.6fps in 1024x768 and a less desirable 20fps in 1280x1024. Scaling-wise, the Mobility Radeon 9700 initially takes a 30% increase over the Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro and adds to that gap minimally by 2% in 1280x1024.
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alexruiz - Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - link
Andrew, did you run 3Dmark 2001SE? Do you have the score as reference?My guess: Checking the list, you can see that almost ALL the ODMs are included. The manufacturers who make machines for the biggest OEMs are included. 2 missing ones that I noticed are Mitac and Arima, and my guess of the unannounced ODM is ARIMA.... thus, the big OEM announcement will be..... you got the picture :)
W740K8-D? :P
Serp86 - Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - link
Or maybe begins with s, ends with y, and has 4 letters.Anyway, the 9700 looks pretty darn good
Durt - Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - link
What is the price difference between the two (9600 pro and 9700).PrinceGaz - Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - link
I wonder who the other BIG unannounced notebook manufacturer using it is... from a wild guess I'd bet the name begins with 'D' and has four letters :p