At the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 one of the main news of the day was the announcement of AMD mobile graphics chip with support for DirectX 11. Before beating nVidia desktop graphics market, AMD still trailed for the nVidia GPU on the market for notebooks. The previous generation of mobile GPU AMD, Mobility Radeon 4000, it was not very popular in the market. So the appearance of a series Mobility Radeon 5000, given the excellent performance, which may provide new graphics chips, AMD should bring a welcome advantage in this market.

The good news is that AMD is really this time brought to market their mobile GPU. For example, currently the company ASUSTek actively used in its high-performance notebooks with AMD chips support DirectX 11, but, fortunately for AMD, it is quite aggressive in promoting these solutions. That Asus introduced the first notebooks with Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and Mobility Radeon HD 5730.

Now, Asus has expanded its offer to include two new flagship mobile graphics with AMD, Mobility Radeon HD 5870. A pair of laptops, G73JH-X1 and G73JH-A2, will be sold for about $ 1600 per batch of 1000 pieces. They have a processor Intel Core i7 720QM (1.60GGts), 8GB of DDR3 memory and 17.3 "screen with high resolution 1920x1080 pixels (just for a powerful mobile graphics card). Both models weigh 3.6kg. X1 model has a 1TB hard drive, and the model A2 content to drive at 500GB, but it comes with a backpack and mouse. Mobility Radeon HD 5870 has 1GB of memory GDDR5, which is clocked at 1000MHz, while the core clock speed of 700MHz, providing a teraflop of computing power at less than 60W power consumption, to some extent thanks ultrasmall 40 nm technological process.

For those who like to play on a laptop is really exciting news. AMD internal testing showed that its new mobile video solutions bypass nVidia GTX 280M by a margin of 25% in a number of modern games, including Crysis, Far Cry 2 and Left 4 Dead. In synthetic tests, the results of the new GPU are not far from the results of solutions with SLI. This means that the new Asus laptops may be the fastest gaming laptops without SLI of all, on the market today. Until there will be results of independent tests, this cannot be said with certainty, but AMD is confident that the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is the fastest single-chip graphics solution for notebooks.

In combination with high-resolution screen new mobile GPUs enable mobile gaming bliss. Likely in the near future the market will gaming laptops with ATI chips from other manufacturers. The solution from nVidia DirectX 11 is expected somewhere at the end of this month or early next month.

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