ATi Mobility 4850 (M98) + Core 2 Duo X9100

Found a pic gallery that has some interesting info regarding the upcomming ATi Mobility 4850 along with the 3Dmark06 score when the system is equipped with the new Core 2 Duo Extreme X9100:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21969965@N05/

scroll down to browse through pages (I think 4 pages).

 

Giv eet to meh!!!!! 5 hours of battery life on a gaming machine (even if in balanced mode). Holy **** is all I can say. Looks like it's going to be a revolution in mobile gaming.

EDIT: finally hit 800.

 

And this is from what system?

 

Meh -- the 4850 doesn't look revolutionary or anything. Probably around a 9800M GTX, at least in terms of 3DMark06 alone.

I hope it plays games much better and runs cool enough for a M860TU, but until something mobile that gets 15K or better in 3DMark06 and is cool enough to fit into that chassis, it probably wouldn't be worth an upgrade from a 9800M GT.

Still, though, it's competition -- something desperately needed in the mobile GPU segment.

EDIT: Actually since that 10K 3DMark06 score was achieved with an overclocked X9100, I bet that a 9800M GT would get close to that score with that chip overclocked as well.

 

Where do you see 5 hours? I see 1 hour 19 minutes at 95% charge...

 

Unreleased (of course), but who cares, an Intel Extreme CPU and top of the line GPU should by logic not give 5 hours of battery life. There's magic in the air...

EDIT: Page 3. They have one right after they unplug the AC (~8 hours) then a little later they have one a little after it's been unplugged (~5 1/2 hours).

EDIT2: of course we'd need to see some pics when the % is down a bit more to be sure the reading has stabilized.

 

I wish I had an Intel SECRET chipset

-J.B.

 

Looks interesting. Nice to have choices.

 

that is strange there was core 2 duo logo and under extreme weid ...

 

I got 12200 3DMarks 06 points on my desktop system listed in my signature when it was at stock settings.

Now I've overclocked the CPU to 3.6GHZ.

I guess nearly 10K 3DMarks in 06' isn't too shabby at all.

 

IMO 3dmark does not stress shaders enough to be relevant. It is almost a plain old video memory benchmark. An oc'ed 9700m GT can get 9000 points but a game like Crysis barely scales at all.

Give me the 4850"s extra shaders any day. When someone runs real tests there should be a big difference.

 

From what I've seen the mid-range 9700M GT scores in the upper 5000's to the lower 6000's in 3DMark06.

 

Is this a MXM II or MXM III card?

 

I hope Lenovo puts it in one of their notebooks.

 

Which picture proves the existence of the Mobility 4850?

 

there will be both