ATI Announces Mobility Radeon X700 GPU

ATI's new PCI-Express based X700 graphics chip is designed for thin and light laptops and will feature GDDR3 memory.

Mobility Radeon X700 technology will be adopted by many of the industry’s top OEM and ODM designers including Acer, Arima, Asus, Alienware, BenQ, Clevo, Compal, ECS, Eurocom, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Gateway Inc, Inventec, Lenovo, LG, Medion, MSI, Samsung, Sony, Targa, Toshiba and Uniwill.

“Users want next generation graphics performance without sacrificing the convenience of their thin-and-light notebooks,” said Phil Eisler, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Business Unit, ATI technologies. “With the introduction of MOBILITY RADEON X700, they don’t have to. It has the versatility, performance and power efficiency to address a wide range of notebooks from thin-and-light to mobile workstations.”

Designed for performance thin and thin-and-light users, Mobility Radeon X700 offers a wide range of features and benefits including:

– Eight parallel pixel pipelines and six programmable vertex pipelines for lightning fast graphics performance

– POWERPLAY 5.0 with new PCI Express based power management capabilities for longer battery life

– LRTC and LCD-EE for high-quality, crisp video playback on notebook panels

– Automatic Display Configuration technology for simplified setup of external displays

– High performance GDDR3 memory support

– A range of integrated memory options optimized for space and power efficiency