Graphic Cards ATI's Mobility HD 5650 tested

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One of our forum members managed to spot that Notebookjournal.de scored Deviltech's 15.6-inch Fire DTX notebook featuring ATI's Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card with DirectX 11 support, and has run some benchmarks on it just to see what can we expect from ATI's latest Mobility lineup. The new mainstream DX 11, 40nm GPU offers decent performance and much lower power consumption when compared the competition.

The ATI Mobility HD 5650 features 1GB of GDDR3 video memory and works at 600MHz for the GPU and 800MHz for memory. We are talking about ATI's mainstream mobile GPU, codename Madison, while entry-level Park and performance/high-end Broadway are yet to show up. All of these chips are scheduled for CES launch and we are sure that many manufacturers will go for them.

Based on Intel's Core i7 720QM CPU and with 4GB of memory, Deviltech's Fire DTX is powerful enough to run Dirt 2 at 1920 x 1080, but only at medium details, and even then it churns out an average of 28 FPS. The same goes for STALKER Call of Pripyat, which is sort of disappointing, as native resolution of its 15.6-inch screen is indeed 1920x1080. On the other hand there is always the more powerful Broadway GPU that will probably show up in some high-end desktop replacement notebooks.

The ATI Mobility HD 5650 equipped Deviltech notebook performs close to the similar equipped MSI GT640 with Nvidia GTS 250M GPU, but has a much lower power consumption which is a nice improvement even when compared to the previous generation Mobility HD 4650.
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Seems like budget gaming laptops have got a small boost with the new HD5650:hap2:
Source: Fudzilla
 
Regardless, it's a good thing... ATi is finally getting their act together in notebook space, usually their mobility offerings come very late after their desktop launch. nVidia had taken advantage of this situation in past and you'll see lot of nVidia based graphic in many laptops, but not so much of ATi since last couple generations.

Looks like what they missed with DX10, they are going to make up with DX11. :)
 
well i got mine a few days back
and it really really rocks
it plays cod mw2, bad company 2,crysis(medium) all very smoothly without a hitch

battery life is around 2 and a half hours at an average
 
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