On 13 Aug 2006, at 10:39 PM, Tyler Turner wrote:
As I've pointed out several times already, the ATI
X600 uses the same
chipset as the ATI 9600, which was originally
released in 2003. It's
unfortunate that the manufacturer did not allow you
to select a
better graphics card at the time, but as you know,
when it comes to
computers, three years is an eternity.
I did my research at the time of the purchase though.
The X600's were not slow for notebook graphic
solutions. While I'm guessing the mobile 9700's would
have been faster (if you could find them), the mobile
X800's hadn't been released at the time I purchased my
system (they came a couple of weeks later).
I've linked to this before, but here is a chart comparing ATI's
graphics card offerings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units
You can see that the Radeon 9600 Pro uses the RV350 chipset and has a
fillrate of 1600 MT/s. The Radeon X600 Pro uses the RV380 (which is
derived from the RV350) and has exactly the same fillrate -- 1600 MT/s.
I don't know about ATI, but nVidia definitely had faster options for
laptops at the time.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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