HotHardware have posted their preview with benchmarks of ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 graphics card. After looking @ the benchmarks the Radeon 9600, it sure does kick the GeForce4 Ti 4200 video card in the nuts and boy does it hurt and comes close to bi** slapping the GeForce FX 1000! Here's a snip.
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Before I even start talking about the benchmark results, I'd like to point out that these tests were run on systems configured by ATI. I did spend time checking display and registry settings to ensure nothing out of the ordinary was going on, though. It should also be noted that the comparison that we're doing here is a bit obscure. On one hand, we've got a workstation-class QuadroFX 1000 - an NV30 card running a 300MHz core and 300MHz DDR memory bus on an i850E platform. The ATI system was a desktop outfitted with a special M10 AGP card used in a lab setting to emulate the performance that we'd see in a laptop, only it's easy to work with. However, while the card was operating at 350/300MHz (Mobility RADEON 9600 Pro speeds), the card was not outfitted with GDDR2-M memory, so it isn't exactly representative of what we could expect from a mobile platform sporting a similar setup. Then again, we were also running a beta driver that wasn't WHQL-certified, which gives it official compliance with the specifications set forth by DirectX 9. Finally, the GeForce4 Ti 4200 scores are included to represent a best-case scenario of what we'd expect from NVIDIA's mobile NV28 solution, though we haven't had the chance to test either that or NVIDIA's next-generation mobile product deriving from the NV31 and NV34 families.
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Preview With Benchmarks
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Before I even start talking about the benchmark results, I'd like to point out that these tests were run on systems configured by ATI. I did spend time checking display and registry settings to ensure nothing out of the ordinary was going on, though. It should also be noted that the comparison that we're doing here is a bit obscure. On one hand, we've got a workstation-class QuadroFX 1000 - an NV30 card running a 300MHz core and 300MHz DDR memory bus on an i850E platform. The ATI system was a desktop outfitted with a special M10 AGP card used in a lab setting to emulate the performance that we'd see in a laptop, only it's easy to work with. However, while the card was operating at 350/300MHz (Mobility RADEON 9600 Pro speeds), the card was not outfitted with GDDR2-M memory, so it isn't exactly representative of what we could expect from a mobile platform sporting a similar setup. Then again, we were also running a beta driver that wasn't WHQL-certified, which gives it official compliance with the specifications set forth by DirectX 9. Finally, the GeForce4 Ti 4200 scores are included to represent a best-case scenario of what we'd expect from NVIDIA's mobile NV28 solution, though we haven't had the chance to test either that or NVIDIA's next-generation mobile product deriving from the NV31 and NV34 families.
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Preview With Benchmarks
