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    AMD now holds the ?Number 1? position with an overall 53% mobile discrete market share.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by sgilmore62, Aug 24, 2009.

  1. sgilmore62

    sgilmore62 uber doomer

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    Awesome! Its about time AMD started giving nVidia a run for its money!

    I like it.
     
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    rot112 El Rompe ToTo

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    Maybe now they will really start competing in prices and making MXM a more accessible product for everyone. o.0 maybe we might start being able to buy mobile GPU's in best buy now LOL.
     
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    although i;ve always bought nvidia, i've got to say ati's prices just got really attraactive
     
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    Ovrclck350 Notebook Consultant

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    Intel has nothing to do with discrete graphics, so are you talking about?
     
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    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    GO AMD!

    Ima 4k serie gpu user, and i have been impressed ever since ive bought it, Maybe if AMD get there act together in the CPU market, we can see some real pushbacks from them.
     
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    Vaath Notebook Deity

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    Narsail they are talking about AMD graphics over Nvidia graphics, not AMD cpu's over Intel Cpu's.
     
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    yes, i've always viewed amd as heat generating since i was at school.
     
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    All they need now is driver support for mobile cards...
     
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    Maybe I should read the titles.....in that case it doesnt suprise me one bit, ATI had been making a solid push in the mobile market and they have a very solid line-up, with affordable high-end options.
     
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    Too bad most of that is just low-end tech like the 4350 and 4570. The enthusiast class is still dominated by Nvidia, for now. I have questions about why cards like the 4830/4850/4860 haven't been more involved in the strategy. These are the chips that were supposed to take over the market. I don't care about anything less.
     
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    The 4650 has got to be a big chunk of the market as well. Agreed about the top-end though
     
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    TSMC is more to blame than ATI is for the 4830/4860 not being anywhere mobile.

    As for the Mobility 4850 it's been in laptops from 3 separate manufacturers (MSI, ASUS, and Alienware), while off hand I can only recall the GTX 280m being in 3 Clevo laptops and an Alienware. There might be more notebooks using the GTX280m that I can't think of but the high end market is really not that far in Nvidia's favor.

    Now if you said it's disappointing not seeing any GDDR5 Mobility 4870s around I would have agreed with ya. ;)
     
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    I add the 9800M GS and GTX 260M to the comparison.

    Btw, which ASUS holds a 4850? I can't recall one.
     
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    MexicanSnake I'm back!

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    Go ATI, I love my ATI card, it perfoms better than I expected and has LOW temps :D.
     
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    Go Ati Im really starting to dislike Nvidia after my 8400 in my laptop and my desktop blew up. My 9800 in my laptop. Im getting really tired of nvidia. I used to be a firm believer not anymore ati is the way to go.
     
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    The W90 held two. :wink:
     
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    Prydeless Stupid is

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    I thought the W90 had dual 4870s.
     
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    That's what ASUS wants you to think.

    There's differing opinions on what makes a 4850 card different from a 4870 card since they both use the same RV770 GPU. I'm part of the camp that thinks the two cards are separated by GDDR3 and GDDR5, and seeing as the ASUS card used GDDR3 that would match it to ATI's Mobility 4850 reference card. Other's feel that GDDR5 doesn't matter and an extra 50Mhz on the core clock speed is enough to call the W90's 4850 a 4870.
     
  20. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    No they were 4850's with a small overclock ....