ATI serves up DirectX 11-compatible Mobility Radeon GPUs, helps nerds fall in love
By Darren Murph 
posted January 9th 2010 6:45AM
posted January 9th 2010 6:45AM
posted January 9th 2010 6:45AM
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@unrealtkiller2 This is a lame way to get hits!
"DirectX 11 has been chewed up and spit out by desktop GPUs"
You're missing the "ATI" word here. Nvidia still has to release a DirectX 11 card.
@Slaarg That's completely irrelevant, but ok.
@SarnGate It is relevant, because it might lead to someone interpreting Engadget to that DX11 support as 'easily available on desktops' when in fact only new ATI GPUs have it so far, and none of the nvidias.
@Slaarg and I was JUST considering getting an nVidia 285 GTX.... thanks for that!
Not impressed, awaiting Fermi or the 5000 series refresh
Nice pictures photoshopped on the screens....
Even better photoshopped background.... Or not.
Real life, now with jaggies!
http://www.amd.com/PublishingImages/Public/Photograph_LifestylePhotos/LowResolutionJPEG/Lifestyle_image_mobile_lifestyle.png
Is this better than the GeForce 300 series?
Are they even out yet?
@revoltracers Depends on the card. Generally, yes, a lot of the nvidia GT3xx series are GT2xx rebrands, not Fermi. These ATI cards support DX11, the current GT3xxM series don't, so when games using that come out that take advantage of DX11 features you'll have an advantage.
@FAP FAP FAP Desktop Fermi GT3xx parts aren't out, but there's several cards that aren't Fermi which nvidia is calling GT3xx, seemingly just to confuse people.
Well, laptops are catching up again, good to see a cypress hit laptops. Nvidia's so called GTX285M was really a upgraded 9800 part from the generation before that -_-
@YpoCaramel
That's the nice thing about ATI-- majority of their Mobility Radeon line-up aren't rehashed previous generation chips. These are brand new chips. 50W TDP for a Mobility Radeon 5870! Now that is pretty damn good. The Mobility Radeon 5870 is a slightly slower 5770 desktop in mobile form.
Nvidia's idea of a Mobile Geforce card? Take a previous generation card, handicap it, dumb down the power and speed, and slap a new name on it calling it "next generation."
Example: 260M is closer to a 9800 GT (desktop). 280M is closer to a 9800 GTX (desktop). And, like you said, 285M GTX is a 9800+ GTX
@YpoCaramel
nvidia has been fucking up all over the place for the past couple of years.
They built these really nice, really expensive cards and released them just as the economy tanked.
@octoberasian Good to see some actual power in the mobile space, since I can't stand anything lower in res than 1680x1050. I have two 15.4 Lenovo's, one with a 1280x800 screen one with a 1680x1050 screen. It pains me to use the 1280 anymore. Unfortunately both are being run on NVS 140M chips so most anything 3D doesn't run worth a damn.
Put it in a laptop (not this G73jh abomination) and you'll have my attention. Currently, I'm sticking to the Envy 15 as my fav laptop...
@TareG The Envy 15 refresh will have a 5830 - no where close to the 5870, mostly likely, but at least it's DX11.
@YpoCaramel
Well it's still a Class A card. Till now, the only laptop with a DX11 compatible card is hideous and almost not portable...
@YpoCaramel
they both have 800SPs, they should be very close in performance.
Though if the mobile 5870 has GDDR5 and the 5830 has GDDR3, that could have an impact.
might help the nerds fall in love, but that guy looks to have been friend-zoned.
well...you didnt say it helped people love nerds :/
@vlad the inhaler And I thought they were gay asexuals or something of the kind.
Well they sure look happy.
@Twenty5 Awh how cute.
I wish they would start using opengl. Us Linux and them mac users want some game love.
See, I find this odd because I am looking at the dxdiag screen on my hp dv6, and it says it's using directx 11, but it's only an hd4200... So is it really running directx11?
@GSTurbo No, that means that your operating system is capable of running dx 11 (you have it installed). I had a 4850 and it said the same thing even though the card obviously doesn't support it.
No. You have DirectX11 support But you don't have a card that can make use of it.
Doesn't matter anyway -the HD4200 isn't going to ne running any new games well.
@picture
Dude! That's your sister you're back to back with...
They should face to face and sit on each other. : )
Now I just need a desktop Radeon HD 5650 for my HTPC. Hurry up ATI!
Caption: "Not having to look at each other is great!"
Just ordered my refreshed HP Envy 15 with the 5830 for $1400 with the new pricing and a coupon!
Now only if I had a game that actually used DX11...