Can a notebook computer deliver desktop-style graphics performance? ATI brings its RV350 core to notebook computers, along with DX9, new power management, and even dynamic overclocking. ExtremeTech were checking out the performance of the mobile gamer's dream: The Mobility Radeon 9600 (MR9600) brings the four-pixel pipe/two-vertex pipe Radeon 9600 Pro architecture into laptops. Like its desktop counterpart, the GPU is built on 0.13-micron process technology, allowing for higher clock speeds. The GPUs we tested were clocked at 350MHz, a 45.8% increase from the preceeding GPU - the Mobility Radeon 9000. Because the MR9600 is built on 0.13-micron, it can acheive this maximum core clock rate while still fitting within the power and heat constraints required by mobile computing. The operative word here is maximum core clock speed, since the GPU only hits that speed when a laptop is plugged in, or when a 3D application demands maximum performance from the GPU.

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