13.3 inch using a ati 3870

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-FSC-Amilo-SA3650-Notebook-Amilo-Graphic-Booster.13484.0.html
so i guess external graphics cards do work

 

Hmm, interesting.

 

FROM THE ARTICLE:

It's only as good as a PCI-E 1x video card... maxing out in performance about on par where 13.3" laptops ALREADY TOP OUT WITH INTEGRATED. You can get an LG P300 with an 8600GS, a Lenovo U330 with a Radeon 3650...
These cards perform just below par with where that setup bottlenecks (which has shown to be around the performance of an 8600GT. Oh, and let us not forget, the XG station requires an external monitor, while the laptops I mentioned DO NOT.

I say again - worthless, just like the ViDock ***Unless you need the monitor ports.
Let's cross our fingers for this thing AMD's cooking up.

 

You may want to read a little more. The PCI-Express bandwidth limitation only applies to the ASUS XG Station, not the Amilio Graphic Booster in the review. The Amilio has a PCI-Express 2.0 8x, more than enough for any of the current mobile video cards.

As for what AMD is cooking up, you're looking at it. The Amilio is using ATi/AMD's XGP technology.

 

You're right. I should have kept reading, but I thought it was yet another article on the XG dock. Read the first two paragraphs and closed the tab.
My bad!

 

I'm liking where this is going.

Their HL2 lost coast HDR test showed the notebook with the HD3200IGP getting 25FPS avg in 1024x768, and with the external MR HD3870 it got 98fps avg in 1920x1200. That's MASSIVE, and exactly what people following the progress of external video cards for notebooks have been looking for.. Granted this is so far only for this one notebook & manufacturer, but it's very promising if this becomes a standard for notebooks in the future. The only limit I see from this is the CPU. The Turion X2 can't keep up with the high end mobile GPU in their tests such as Crysis and supreme commander which are typically CPU intensive.

 

Soooo, I'm confused (not too hard these days)....

This is an EXTERNAL device that allows you run with a more powerful GPU to display on either the laptop display or an external monitor?

What powers it?

 

it's laptop powered

 

Wow, the performance numbers are really promising. Just as the EEE came out in late 2007 and the next year, many more netbooks came out and the category exploded, do I hope in 2009, we'll see many more companies and their products with the XGP technology.

Only downside is its exclusive to AMD Puma notebooks and so I hope an alternative is made for Intel notebooks, but even then, its not too shabby having all that graphics power in a 13" notebook without worries of heat in the chassis for example.

 

finely a really portable gaming laptop

 

lol i think i have seen 100 posts on this thing already its been out for quite a while that being said i read a "rumor" recently that claimed there is supposedly a high end 4000 series card coming out for this now THAT id be interested in and the thing thats nice about this is you can just throw it in your laptop bag

 

But I dont think it gonna be effective and powerful like internal graphics card!

 

you know it depends according to the becnhmarks i read it seems as if it IS more powerful 3dmark for the 13" w/3850 was 8100-8200 thats Very good i think integrated is only about 7000-7500

 

Now that's a LAN monster. This is definately where laptops are headed, so you can slim down that 17" to 1" thin without running into heat issues. Then plug in the adapter at home and wonder why they still make desktops

 

In game benchmarks by Notebookjournal:
http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/notebook-test-gaming-fsc-amilo-sa-3650-mit-graphic-booster-765/2

 

That is, until Intel replaces their GMA line with Larabee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)

It's only a matter of time.

 

Now I would really like HP to implement the ATI XGP technology into their new TX2 multi-touch consumer tablet notebooks.

 

I read a very recent article about larabee, and the rep made it sound so that Intel had no intention of replacing the hardcore ati/nvidia GPU niche. If there is a company that will change how we look at the interaction of CPUs and GPUs, it is Intel, but for now there's simply not enough information.

 

The External Graphic Booster only works with XGP Port right? If it's true, the gadget is useless for the majority of notebooks out there. Besides, it requires an external monitor which kills its usefulness for portable gaming.

The best solution should have been an external card that works with an Express Card and uses the internal monitor of the laptop.

 

Yep... It's only certain laptops with an AMD chipset which work. Which is a shame really. I'd love to pair a T9400 with that in an ultraportable.

The express card bandwidth is too small and the slot is too physically small to accomodate the chip + cooling + PCB/other stuff

 

But is it technically possible to built an external card that will use internal monitor of the laptop, instead of external?

 

Its awesome to finally see this technology become available. It would other be nice to see a comparision of two similarly speced laptops, one with the 3870 built in and one with it being external.

 

now we need this with an intel cpu

 

From what I gather though the performance scales nearly linearly with number of cores so they should be able to offer their product all across the market.

 

i wonder what the performance would have been like had this notebook have a high end core 2 like a core 2 extreme