How Well Will The Radeon Mobility X1900 Run DX10 Games?

How Well Will The Radeon Mobility X1900 Run DX10 Games?
And what is Santa Rosa? Is it like the new chipset made especially for a laptop with a dx10 card in it?

 

It won't.

yeah, pretty much. there are a few other changes too, but yeah, it's also supposed to come with a DX10 compatible integrated GPU.

 

the direct x10 is not backward compatible with any other directx9 compatible card which is acctually a huge disadvantage for all as jalf had said
santa rosa is also called dual core pro and also promises to boost battery life and increase performance by 20% or so over the core 2 duo

 

I think you're getting one or two things mixed up here.
First, dual core is not a product name, it simply refers to "any CPU with two cores".
You may be thinking of Core (2) Duo, which is Intel's product name for their current CPU's. Core is the name of the architecture (chosen to cause as much confusion as possible, so that when people talk about dualcore, they automatically think Intel. Looks like it's working). 2 means it's the second generation of this architecture. And duo means that it's a dual-core processor.

So if anything, Santa Rosa might be called Core Duo pro.
But even then (I've never heard that name before), Core (Duo) is a CPU. Santa Rosa is a motherboard chipset. So I highly doubt they would name it after their CPU's.

I have seen the name Centrino Pro being tossed around though, so at a wild guess, I'd assume that's what you were thinking of?

As for battery life and performance? Well, they have to say that, don't they?
We'll see. It has some improvements for minimizing power consumption, but the more complex GPU and the faster FSB will also eat more power. Overall? We'll see. But I'd be very skeptical of any claims of 20% improvement.

As for your first question, DirectX10 applications will *only* run on DX10-compatible cards. Which, at the moment, means the Geforce 8800 *only*. For then ext 3-5 years though, games will still support DirectX 9, and only add a DX10 mode for those who can take advantage of it. But they won't require it.

 

oops well guess even i got it mixed up there....sorry
anyways thanx for correcting me