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    Ati Mobile HD 2700 Announced

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by thelaptopguy, Dec 11, 2007.

  1. thelaptopguy

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  2. talin

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    That's it? After all this time, that's all they can come out with? :rolleyes: Nvidia really seems to be far ahead of the pack, with the 8800 just around the corner.
    128-bit 4-channel DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface :rolleyes:
     
    talin, Dec 11, 2007
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    lifeflayer Notebook Guru

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    nvidia has always been ahead of amd/ati with mobile gpus with the exception of the geforce 5/fx and ati 9xxx generation.
     
    lifeflayer, Dec 11, 2007
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  4. talin

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    Yes, but nvidia aside, I would have expected a bit more to come from ATI.
     
    talin, Dec 11, 2007
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    x1600 and x1700 did pretty well too. And it's a shame the HD 2600 isnt getting as much love from manufacturers. It's a good card, the DDR3 has real potential but the only manufacture using it that i know of is HP, in it's 8510P
     
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  6. Peter Bazooka

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    I just compared the specs between the 2700 and 2600 on the amd/ati website and I fail to see a difference. It appears that they just cut and pasted so I wonder if this is actually correct.

    TI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2700 Product Features
    390 million transistors using 65nm fabrication process
    Unified Superscalar shader architecture
    Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
    OpenGL 2.0
    128-bit 4-channel DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
    Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
    ATI Avivo HD Video and Display architecture
    ATI PowerPlay 7.0 power management technology

    ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600 Product Features
    390 million transistors using 65nm fabrication process
    Unified Superscalar shader architecture
    Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
    OpenGL 2.0
    128-bit 4-channel DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
    Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
    ATI Avivo HD Video and Display architecture
    ATI PowerPlay 7.0 power management technology
     
    Peter Bazooka, Dec 11, 2007
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  7. talin

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    Maybe it's just overclocked, like the 8600-->8700 was?
     
    talin, Dec 11, 2007
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    I'm also dissapointed by the lack of ATI support. I get tired of seeing 99% of posts here about the 8600m.

    But I also like the fact that ATI is simply providing an alternate graphics solution as opposed to just trying to beat out nVidia with power.

    And as little love as te HD2600 series gets, it is one helluva mobile graphics card.
     
    onlycopunk, Dec 11, 2007
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  9. txqzr4

    txqzr4 Notebook Consultant

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    Hooray for AMD/ATI releasing too little, too late again! Cyrix is what happens when you keep this up.
     
    txqzr4, Dec 12, 2007
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    x1700 was the same specs as the x1600.

    It was worse because atis own utilities werent compatible with it.
     
    stamar, Dec 12, 2007
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  11. Yokozuna

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    I believe it's just a renamed HD 2600XT, hence the lack of hype from ATI.
     
    Yokozuna, Dec 12, 2007
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