Notebook graphics card Introduction- ATI

ATI laptop graphics has as Intel as unshakable as AMD by Turion64 the front toward the Intel cut, ATI being a strong challenge from NVIDIA, Intel and many other opponents. But the boss is the boss, the ATI product line camp really pack a large pool: AGP's Mobility Radeon-based system: 9200,9600,9700,9800, based on the PCI-E, Department of Mobility Radeon X: X300, X600, X700, X800 X1300, X1600 and integrated XPress200 are different.
1.Mobility the Radeon 9000/9200, Features support for DX8
After "radium" and 7500, inherited the glory of the radium family, 2002, ATI launched the world look forward to the Mobility Radeon 9000 and 9200 two. Mobility Radeon 9000-based desktop Radeon 9000 chip kernel development from the core frequency of 250MHz, memory frequency of 460MHz, and also specifically for the CAD / CAM, DCC, has been optimized, and this is also the world's first fully supports Direct X 8.1 professional mobile graphics chip NVIDIA Quadro4 Go GL strong competitors. In terms of energy-saving technology, Mobility Radeon 9000 using the improved third generation of the PowerPlay "power management technology.
9200 code for the M9 + 9000 an improved version of the desktop-class Radeon9200, the biggest improvement is to increase support for AGP 8x. In addition, 9200 is also a corresponding increase in core frequency and memory frequency, the core frequency of 270MHz, memory frequency of 540MHz DDR, the same, the third generation of the PowerPlay power management technology.

Although the products released in 2002, until today, which in many books, we can see the presence of Mobility Radeon 9000/9200. Remember the phrase "4880! Notebooks to mention to go home!" The famous slogan? This notebook is the Shenzhou Cheng Long A220E, it is equipped with 64M ATI R9000 discrete graphics, with the mobile version of AMD Athlon XP-M processor 2200 +, 5000 multisection 3DMark01 score, play 3D games such as Warcraft, CS basically no problem. called for minimum standards for equipment, games Friends of tailored.
2. Mobility Radeon 9600/9600pro, Characteristic support DX9
Mobility Radeon 9000/9200 does not support DX9, ATI followed in March 2003 officially launched the Mobility Radeon 9600 series, the project code-named the M10. The launch has also created a series Mobility Radeon several firsts: the first one to support DX9 mobile graphics chip; the first time to take a 0.13μm process; first piece can support up to 128MB video memory graphics chip.
9600/9600pro are based on the development of desktop-class Radeon 9600 (codenamed RV350), hardware architecture is almost the same, but also improved memory controller and integrated within the new version of Hyper-Z compression technology . The main difference is still the core frequency and memory frequency. They are ATI's high-end mobile 3D graphics chip, using four pixel channel, four vertex engines, you can support Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and the latest OpenGL to provide more advanced anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, can provide a film the effect of image and excellent 3D performance from the evaluation results, 9600 3Dmark01 score of 8000-9000 the standard.
9600 the maximum support to 128M memory should be able to cope with today's mainstream games, at least in the number of books using these chips, however, often up to only assigned to 64M. Furthermore, the graphics chip, memory frequency do not increase, addition, 9600 seem to have ATI into a tendency to heat large, plus the framework of limitations, so that 9600 is destined soon to be thrown into history.
3.Mobility Radeon 9700/9700SE ATI's most successful products
Mobility Radeon 9700 is the current notebook notebook discrete graphics in the desktop graphics chip, 9700 to help ATI to hit a nice turnaround for the first time ahead of an nVidia. However, Mobility Radeon 9700 is not the Desktop 9700 mobile version. Mobility Radeon 9700 is actually taken 4 rendering pipelines design of the RV360 Radeon 9600XT, using the 9700 naming, in fact, with the famous brilliant desktop 9700.
In early 2004, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics chip, the project code-named the M11. In the process, the Mobility Radeon 9700 using the 0.13μm Low-k (low dielectric constant insulator) process to produce, which makes the M11 in less heat compared with the M10 in the work of the same frequency, or that the heat in the same circumstances can work at higher frequencies. With the Low-k technology, making the Mobility Radeon 9700's core frequency to further improve the reach 450MHz, memory frequency can reach 520MHz.
Relative to the Mobility Radeon 9600Pro, its performance has been considerable progress in 3DMark01 scores can break a million mark. Allows you to 1024x768 resolution, smooth running Halo (Halo) and cell division. As for the Mobility Radeon 9700SE (also known as the Mobility Radeon 9500), in fact, is the reduced frequency version of the Mobility Radeon 9700, the core frequency from 450MHz down to 250MHz, memory frequency from 520MHz down to 400MHz. Both products are energy-saving technologies, the fourth generation of the PowerPlay technology. At the same frequency, the 9700 is better than the 9600 heat control. According to the evaluation, in actual use, the 9600 350MHz runtime power consumption of about 7-8W in the same power consumption, the 9700 can run in 400MHz and in the case of standby power consumption significantly reduced to 1W.
Configured with 64MB of video memory, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics chip, to cope with FIFIA 2005 "," CS "," Warcraft "game at ease, to reduce some of the details, even when running Need for Speed ​​Underground also evident.
In August the same year, ATI Mobility Radeon 9800, it is the same with the 9700 process, but with eight rendering pipelines and 4 vertex shaders and 256bit memory bandwidth, 256MB of memory, the frequency of 350MHz/600MHz. Its project code-named M18, is based on the desktop Radeon 9800 graphics chip, with all of its features, including technologies such as Displacement mapping. In addition, the 9800 uses a 0.13μm Low-k process of production, and the fifth generation of the PowerPlay "power management technology, relatively good control of power consumption, providing end users with the top graphics performance. Called Mobility Radeon9800, but they are using the X800 core architecture, Mobility Radeon X-series of mobile graphics chips will be left to the PCI Express interface, so ATI the Mobility Radeon9800 to the Fengyun core. And X800 series graphics card, Mobility Radeon9800 Long Shader 2.0 instructions and 3Dc texture compression technology. For a laptop, the X800 core, the 9800 seems to be overkill, because even if the ability to Dothan, can not take full advantage of the strength of 9800? Turion64 better? We really need so fast? Moreover, in this case, people will tend to choose the X800. I know, really used this card notebook seems not to sell.
The 9700 series is ATI's AGP era of great success with the final glory. 9800 is the ill-fated, for now, this is only a symbolic significance than practical significance graphics card. So far, we never saw the ATI AGP on other actions. AGP era really is this the end?
4 Mobility Radeon X300 to explore the era of PCI-E
With the advent of the Intel Centrino 2, and naturally the PCI Express bus is the introduction of the mobile platform, ATI reaction that sensitive, once again took the lead with their mobile chip on the Sonoma platform. This is the entry-level PCI-E mobile graphics Mobility Radeon X300 from ATI. The project code-named M22, Mobility Radeon9200 (M9 +), using the RV370 core architecture and 0.13μm manufacturing process. Technically full support for DirectX 9.0b and OpenGL 2.0, with 4 3D rendering pipelines and 2 vertex shaders support LCD Enhancement Engine technology to support HyperMemory technology enables chip via PCI Express high-speed architecture borrow system memory as video memory SMOOTHVISION 2.1, while support to eliminate the jagged edges of the object, to improve image quality. In energy efficiency, X300 has been adopted to the fifth generation of ATi Powerplay power management technology.
It can be seen, not advanced, the basic framework of the X300 (M9 +) did not use a 0.13μm Low-k technology, but thanks to the development of technology, the Mobility Radeon X300 core frequency is still to reach 350MHz with the Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro flat memory frequency reached 600MHz, it is almost reached the level of the Mobility Radeon 9800. Thus, although the Mobility Radeon X300 is the entry-level mobile graphics chips, but performance is still strong, some technologies are not applied in the later X600, a shot of its performance is close to 9600. The charm of the PCI-E may be here?
Time IBM T42 2378FVU (64MB Mobility Radeon 9600) and T43 266846U (64MB Mobility Radeon X300) of the test, 3DMarks05 test results: the T43 710, T42 - 68; 3DMark01 test results: T42 - 9751, T43 7021. From the test results is not difficult to find in a new generation of DX9 engine design 3D applications, the actual performance of the Mobility Radeon X300 is slightly higher than the Mobility Radeon 9600 chip, but in the environment of relatively old 3D engine (DX8 standards), the Mobility Radeon X300 did not account for the slightest step on the foot of the cheap, but rather to the Mobility Radeon 9600.
X300 ATI in the beginning of the PCI-E, although can be seen from the above test, the X300's lack of PCI-E is indeed remarkable potential, is the right direction of development. This is why ATI in 9800 did not continue AGP series products of reason. X300, such as the lack of unique FullStream people plagued with massive image offline viewing streaming media files, VideoShader is the most advanced video quality and optimal power to play DVD discs In addition, "automatic display configuration" (ADC), Vari-Bright has efficacy. For notebook users seeking stable 2D and advanced 3D graphics performance, the X300 graphics accelerator can be described as the ideal solution. Striving for you? Think about it, big brother IBM selected the most important T-series, can be wrong?
5. Mobility Radeon X600/X700 build the backbone of the PCI-E
Since the X300 is not too strong for 9600, PCI-E is the development direction, tasted the sweetness of the ATI X300 on a project code-named M24's Mobility Radeon X600 was released in September 2004, intended to replace the Mobility Radeon 9600/9 700, positioning in the end. The X600 is based entirely on the PCI Express technology, designed for notebook computer designed graphics chip, the hardware supports Direct X 9.0. Take into account the particularity of the notebook, the Mobility Radeon X600 ATI notebook dedicated graphics chip, the use of PowerPlay 5.0 power-saving technology, Mobility Radeon X600, ATI also introduced the latest development of the Vari-Bright technology, the function can be graphics directly control the brightness of the display of notebook computers, further power saving. However, it is important to note that, X600 does not support X300 HyperMemory technology applications, so there is support for the Mobility the Radeon X600SE score 3Dmrak03 under can reach 3,000.
Of course, X600 is not the only early in 2005, ATI released the Mobility Radeon X700, Radeon X800 architecture, engineering, code-named the M26 core architecture as RV410, full support for the DX 9.0b. For the first time using the TSMC 0.11μm manufacturing process, can greatly reduce the power consumption of the chip running at full speed, but also makes the X700 graphics chip, the number of transistors to 120 million, surpassing the 9800 level, with eight 3D pipelines, six vertex shaders, pixel fill rate has reached amazing of the 2.8GPixel / s, higher than before the introduction of as much as 75% of the Mobility Radeon X600. It is worth mentioning, X700 used to dynamically change the PCI Express Lanes to connect a number of Dynamic Lane Count Switching (DLCS) technology, in order to better power. Technology can DLCS turned to battery-powered notebook computer power supply from the power adapter, the PCI Express x 16 interface changes to the PCI Express × 4, × 2, and even × 1, to save battery power. The ATi DLCS technology can save up to 30% of electricity. In addition, the Mobility Radeon X700 graphics chip also supports ATi mobile Upgrade the AXIOM.
The absence of the Low-K technology, the Mobility Radeon X700 core frequency is only 350MHz, expensive GDDR3 However, memory is used to support 64MB to 128MB, and frequencies up to 700MHz. Use technology of Smoothvision, Smartshader, the actual performance almost twice that of the Mobility Radeon X600 also supports ATi's PowerPlay 5.0 power-saving technology. Overall with the 9800 tournament, for a time, X700 but myself the situation.
PCI-E was introduced by Intel, but we are here to introduce products using AMD chips. In other words, PCI-E is good stuff, How could Intel alone the United States? That is the island's strong Acer Ferrari 4002WLMi configured AMD Turion 64 ML-30 (1.6G) / 512M/DDR333/5400 turn / 80G HDD / Built-in DVD-SuperMulit/15.4 inch display / WXGA / independent 128M ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics card / 56K V.92 / built-in 10-100-1000M NICs / 802.11b / g Wireless LAN, IrDA infrared mode group Bluetooch Bluetooth module / about 2.86Kg/Windows XP HOME / 1 year international warranty.
X600 is the transformation of ATI from X300. Using the X600 notebook is not much, because its performance with 9700 or less, manufacturers usually push 9700;, X700 is basically a synonym for notebook graphics performance, many manufacturers either do not push alone significantly notebook, to push, push X700 the. The X700 is that ATI really understand the meaning of the PCI-E? Came of age. Perhaps this is why ATI at the launch of the X800 also introduces the reasons of the lower performance X700. Why should highlight DLCS? User performance to be higher or lower temperature? ^ _ ^ In addition, Acer's Ferrari series of books is quite distinctive, sold in Europe, particularly fire, this Ferrari 4000 is AMD and ATI dual A classic hand in hand. ? How with the double "B" so much like it? Looked at the Ferrari logo, Smart was saliva in ~~ ~~ Oh. The face of the price of more than 16K, but unfortunately not m!
6.Mobility Radeon X800 is strong enough to finished machine
It can be said, X800 is forced out. Nvidia is the end of 2004, released a mobile chip Geforce GO 6800, and the performance goes well beyond the Mobility the Radeon 9800 ATI was the strongest performance. Last resort, ATI introduced the Mobility Radeon X800 to deal with, and even skipped the original R400 directly to R420, the absence of any shrink of the R420 core of the X800, the X800 in performance for the first time beyond the desktop PC graphics chips. X800 project, code-named M28, released earlier than the Mobility Radeon X700, so there is no use of the latest 0.11μm manufacturing process, but using the Low-K technology, reduce heat, the number of transistors 1.6 of the ATI Mobility graphics chip peak million! core frequency up to 400MHz, and chief of the 256bit memory frequency up to 800MHz GDDR-3, higher than the Mobility Radeon X700 nearly doubled in the actual performance, the same support for the fifth generation of ATi Powerplay power management technology. Finally, there is X800PRO/X800XT, bringing the total to 16 in addition to increasing the 4 3D rendering pipeline, but also to improve the graphics core and memory frequency, including the flagship X800XT core frequency and memory frequency of both reach 480MHz/1100MHz a new high.
The X800 is too strong, and powerful on the market almost no assembly of finished machine. Original on the CES 2005, AIT exhibited two X800 notebook, even in 17-inch screen can also be smooth running FarCry. Engineering prototype D700W not even be able to use the Sonoma platform, desktop barebones, no wonder that to achieve a weight of more than 5Kg. It uses Intel Pentium4 Prescott 3.2GHz, the desktop version of the Intel 915P chipset, DDR 1G (512M +512 M to build dual-channel platforms) memory, 15.4 "UWXAG (1680x1050) wide high score screen, 256M the PCI-E architecture ATI MOBILITY RADEON X800 card, 80GB5400 rpm SATA hard drive, dual-mode DVD burner, 6600mAh battery. overall configuration is worse than the desktop: 1024 3DMark2001 detected under the resolution of 18919! the 3DMark2005 also reach staggering 4 298, Half live II up to 55.27 fps. MCJ November 24, the GW760 use a Pentium M 2GHz processor, 2GB memory, resolution up to 1,680 × 1,050 17-inch widescreen display, the graphics card is used MOBILITY RADEON X800XT PCI Express x16 interface, memory reach 256MB , 100GB hard drive, Intel 915PM Express chipset, the performance can be described as the mighty foreign price of RMB that is more than ¥ 16K.
What is strong enough to be added? X800 who can get to know, now you can buy books using this card? Here to explain the meaning of X in the X800. "X" has two meanings: first, "X" from the English "extreme", with representatives of unparalleled performance; "X" pronunciation is a bit like the Roman numeral "10", it is succeed Prior to the ATI graphics chip geometric series Department: RADEON 9xxx, after all, if the new generation of graphics cards named "Radeon10800" if a little awkward. Technically, the R420 core seems to be just R3XX the improvement and optimization. In contrast, NVIDIA's NV40 support new DirectX9.0C Shader 3.0 technology, the R420 is just the original R3XX on the basis of improved Vertex shader, Pixel shader and FSAA function. R420 only support the new feature is the new Normal Map compression technology 3Dc technology, the biggest innovation is the 4X4 pixel pipelines portfolio. So I said a concern, perhaps the X800 mortality? Because new, better, the R520, RV530 already appeared. Below we will talk about. Perhaps unfounded, who knows?
7. The Mobility Radeon X1600/X1800: ATI's new generation of angels?
The data show that the ATI upcoming latest mobile graphics Radeon X1600, compared with the desktop version, using 90-nanometer production process, power control will also make quite satisfied. It will have 12 pixel pipelines and four vertex shader units, and based on the RV530 graphics core, support 128bit memory officially provide support for Shader Model 3.0. Will include the Radeon X1600 XT Crossfire version of the Radeon X1600 XT version and the version of the Radeon X1600 Pro. ATI's R520, RV530 and RV515, the RV530 using mid-range core, I am afraid that users are most concerned about the product: cheap, new features and the standard X800 12 pipeline:
The X1600 uses a new design, and enable the first generation of ATI's 90nm process production, integrates 157 million transistors, with 12 pixel pipelines and 5 vertex Shader units, 4 texture units, Render Back Ends, 4 and 8 Z Compare unit and single-cycle, the highest executive ability of the 128 thread. This is more than the original ATI RV410 for mid-range market, the 8-pixel pipeline 4. Heritage of many of the design of the R520, so compared to the original core is really advanced a lot, enable a new Shader architecture, providing support for SM 3.0, using a new memory controller structure, higher image quality (support HDR, with the 128FP computing capacity, to provide a new anti-aliasing), support AVIVO platform. A the Render Back End (RBE) is worth mentioning, which is similar to the NVIDIA display card ROP (Raster Operation Processor raster operations processors) function, and multi-sampling anti-aliasing can be achieved when the FP16 operation, that is, said RV530 AA sampling or anti-aliasing can also be achieved in the implementation of such operations such as HDR. This is due to any NVIDIA graphics card. Although the in RBE number, the RV530 4, more than 16 of the R520, it is little too much! Moreover, the generation RV410 has a complete 8 RBE units and 8 texture units.
That is the problem, obviously, if the RV530 RBE and texture unit, will certainly affect the current X800. X1600 core RV530 12 pipeline for the GeForce 6600/6600GT of 8 pipeline, which unfortunately hurt with 12 pipe X800 innocent. Look at the competitive situation, ATI useful may depend on NVIDIA's action in R4XX core reservoir released an enhanced version of RV530, for example, the RBE and texture units raised to 12, while the efficiency to solve the updating problem. Desktop graphics, the X800 mobile version of inventory how much? Not a lot of it?, X1600 will advance comprehensive alternative to the X800 in the mobile space? After all, from a cost point of view, X800 in any case will not exceed the X1600's. After all, the X800 X1600 is by design revolution to improve performance by upgrading frequency performance gains at a glance which one is better. Overall, the life of the X800 in the mobile space probably will not also, at least not more than the X600.
Integrated X300 ATI integrated solutions 8. Mobility Radeon XPress200
Since ATi released the Radeon Xpress 200 series chipset, it will become the industry's fastest graphics integration solutions. The Radeon Xpress 200 series integrated Radeon X300 graphics core, full DirectX 9.0 support, not only to meet the day-to-day multimedia applications and 3D games, also has great graphics performance HYPERMEMORY technology. The Radeon Xpress 200 series motherboard chip for RS400 and RS480 two groups, both basic specifications, only the former supports the Intel platform, which supports the AMD platform. Use XPress200 basically see it as the X300 graphics books. Of course, he can not really reach the level of the X300, the X300 also sell out? In the 3Dmark01 test, integrated X300 graphics score barely close to the ATI9200 graphics; 3Dmark03 test, the integrated X300 graphics card to play a strong performance , the score is almost twice the ATI9200 graphics (almost 2 times) 915GM integrated graphics.
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Integrated chip is sufficient for many people use the notebook, notebook manufacturers obviously can not ignore this, it is wise Intel be able to replace the ATI become the new dominant reason. Remedy the situation now is not too late, XPress200's success is an example. However, I worry about the Intel integrated graphics capabilities, but a small portion of a lot of the ATI, nVidia and do may a disk performance on the BUG may be able to destroy them on the integration of all results.
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