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ATI’s Latest Mobile VPU Reviewed

MOBILITY RADEON X700 Reviews Hit the Web

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 01/21/2005 | 12:46 AM ]

Gaming on the move is becoming more and more popular and with the arrival of the latest games like Doom III, FarCry and Half-Life 2 there is more than ever need for powerful graphics solutions for notebooks. ATI’s latest MOBILITY RADEON X700 features 8 pixel and 6 vertex pipelines, bringing a serious graphics muscle for laptops, but at an affordable price-point and in relatively low thermal envelope.

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“Internal ATI documentation mentions that MOBILITY RADEON X700 outperforms its thin and light predecessor, MOBILITY RADEON 9700, by a factor of two in most applications (2.5 times in Half-Life 2). Based on our testing results today, we’d say ATI is shortchanging themselves, as not only is MOBILITY RADEON X700 faster than the 4-pipeline MOBILITY RADEON 9700, it’s also faster than ATI’s first DX9 product, the RADEON 9700 PRO on the desktop,” claims web-site FiringSquad, who had an opportunity to test the latest mobile VPU from ATI.