ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Details Emerge

[Charles P. Jefferies]

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Details Emerge

Details on AMD's upcoming ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards have leaked. The cards are expected to be very similar to the desktop versions. The HD 5800 series will be the top-end (5870, 5850, and 5830) with 1,600 shader units (almost double what current top end HD 4000 series have). All of the HD 5800 series will likely support CrossFireX. The HD 5700 series will be the performance range (5770, 5750, 5730), the HD 5600 series (5650, 5600) for the mainstream, and for the entry level the HD 5400 series (5470, 5450, 5430).

AMD is expected to launch the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series cards early next year.

• Full Story (Electronista.com)
• Secondary Source (DigiTimes.com)

[Phinagle]

Serq's got a pretty good thread going in the Gaming & Graphics forum with several links and info.

I guess we'll eventually repeat everything here too though.


Very much looking forward to the ATI cards as they seem to be doing everything right lately while Nvidia has been spending too much time trying to steal business from Intel.

[Quicklite]

Cool. This is going to chew the battery, I mean err... backup power very quickly.

[Phinagle]

40-nm.

For the 5870 GPU ATI is claiming 1.6 times the performance at 20% less power.

[Melody]

AMD's probably making more than half their profits off ATI lol Was probably their best business move to buy them

Anyhow, I'm also looking forward to what ATI can bring to the table. Unlike Nvidia, ATI seems to hold other interests than simply keeping the "top performance crown".

[lowteckh]

AMD's probably making more than half their profits off ATI lol Was probably their best business move to buy them

You'd do well to read some financial articles and statements.

[Melody]

Oh don't quote me on that, the "" indicated it as a joke lol

[devilcm3]

im interested to see how well does it perform against GT300b...although it is still quite a long story...

[dondadah88]

well i haven't seen much on the nvidia parts. but what i can say seeing from the 3 and the 4 series. it's going to have the same downfall. the clock speeds are going to kill the cards performance.

[IKAS V]

These would look great in a 15" laptop.
Yeah I'm talking to you ASUS!
Think we will see one in the promised but long forgotten K51AB.????