Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Days Away From Clinching Top Spot

wolf · Feb 18, 2009

GPUCafe said:
So I guess Matrox has the fastest gaming solution for notebooks?

dont count them out just yet :rolleyes:

lemonadesoda · Feb 18, 2009

Are there any technical specifications for this? How does the mobility version compare with the desktop version?

If this is an ultra low voltage device then how about some enterprising company sticks two of these in crossfire on a PCIe16 board with passive (or at least, silent active) cooling. :pimp:

PCpraiser100 · Feb 18, 2009

Next thing is that Alienware will practise using Nuclear Reactors as laptop batteres!!!

cdawall · Feb 18, 2009

lol can you imagine the size of the power brick for this thing

kuroikenshi · Feb 18, 2009

This comic strip came to mind. Replace Mac Air Book with this one.

Hot Laptop

DrPepper · Feb 18, 2009

I want this NOW !!!

OnBoard · Feb 18, 2009

Beaten by a laptop, this makes my system :cry:

T9400 is a dual core?
http://ark.intel.com/cpu.aspx?groupId=35562

edit: the only two Core 2 Quad mobiles listed on Intels page
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLGEJ
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB5G

Guessing it's brand new Q9300 then with 9.5 multi (and so it says on CPU-Z shot too.. silly me).

mlee49 · Feb 18, 2009

DrPepper said:
I want this NOW !!!

I want one too. Too bad I dont have $2500 to drop on a new gaming setup. :cry:

I just want to see a retailer/reseller that has it available.

Frizz · Feb 19, 2009

I'm more interested to see how the laptop is going to survive! Its like putting a v16 engine on a bicycle rofllll.

Hopefully their battery life and heat workarounds make us go wow too

DrPepper · Feb 19, 2009

mlee49 said:
I want one too. Too bad I dont have $2500 to drop on a new gaming setup.

I just want to see a retailer/reseller that has it available.

Me neither and it better be available in the uk

LittleLizard · Feb 19, 2009

it kick ass my current setup which is 89999 time bigger :eek:

Marineborn · Feb 19, 2009

it probably uses a 12 cell battery which would probably power a system like that for about 3-5 hrs depending on what you were doing

Triprift · Feb 19, 2009

And to think mine does if your lucky 3k in 06 that is amazing ofcourse overheating would be a killer but still mightily impressive for a lappy.

frankie827 · Feb 19, 2009

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it's better than my desktop

Triprift · Feb 19, 2009

Its better than most ppls desktops here.

Couple that with nehalem mobile processor that intel will release later in the year and it will be king insane. :twitch:

frankie827 · Feb 19, 2009

Triprift said:
Its better than most ppls desktops here.

Couple that with nehalem mobile processor that intel will release later in the year and it will be king insane.

please excuse me while i go cry in the corner.

i thought it would be much longer before i saw a laptop that was better than a desktop :eek:

btarunr · Feb 19, 2009

wolf said:
over 99% of us wont buy mobility gear anyway, so meh, unimpressed.

as for ATi "snatching" the crown back off nvidia, hardly.

Guess what, 99% of us don't buy the HD 4870 X2s and the GTX 295s either, so keep your impressions to cheaper cards, going by that logic. Yes, ATI snatches the performance crown. Pit two desktop 8800GTs in x8 x8 SLI against a HD 4870 X2, using a Yorkfield @ 4 GHz, and you will have an identical test-bed to prove the performance difference.

lemonadesoda said:
Are there any technical specifications for this?

Two of those boards you see (1st pic) installed on a system with X38 chipset (providing x16 links to each board). There is no lane-arbiter (like the PLX chip on the desktop card). Each board holds a RV770 GPU with 512M/1G of GDDR5 memory. Speeds are 600/900 MHz (core/mem). With this it ends up as the fastest solution. I'm not 100% sure of these specs, so I didn't mention it in the news.

eidairaman1 · Feb 19, 2009

just to put this out there, the Mobility parts i believe are put thru more stringent testing due to chassis constraints and coolin apparatus, and they are usually built upon the latest process, because for one my Inspiron XPS Machine had a 9800 256 and that was built using the R420 Core.

mlee49 · Feb 19, 2009

The thing's gonna weigh 50 lbs and 40 of it will be the heatsink

eidairaman1 · Feb 19, 2009

not much different than the SLI cards for Laptops.

tkpenalty · Feb 19, 2009

Wonder why they've never thought of a desktop system only utilising laptop parts?... its cheaper and smaller...

eidairaman1 · Feb 19, 2009

proprietary, they also have to account for power differences etc, atleast today, now back in the day with SKT A that was possible.

KainXS · Feb 19, 2009

lemonadesoda said:
Are there any technical specifications for this? How does the mobility version compare with the desktop version?

If this is an ultra low voltage device then how about some enterprising company sticks two of these in crossfire on a PCIe16 board with passive (or at least, silent active) cooling.

Unlike most of nvidia's mobile cards which are cut down, ATI almost never releases mobile GPU's that aren't the same as the desktop versions so I am guessing spec wise its the same as the desktop version but has a lower clocks and voltage on the memory and gpu.

It might also use DDR3 instead of DDR5 also.

Hayder_Master · Feb 19, 2009

i gonna throw my desktop , OMG this is great gamer laptop ever

Triprift · Feb 19, 2009

mlee49 said:
The thing's gonna weigh 50 lbs and 40 of it will be the heatsink

it will be heavy alright great for weightlifting.

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