AMD launches ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 9th January 2009
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AMD launches ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series

AMD has announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards for notebooks this morning at CES.

CES 2009: AMD has announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards for notebooks this morning at CES. They bring everything that was great about the Radeon HD 4000 series to notebooks in all shapes and sizes.

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800 series cards pack 800 stream processors like their desktop siblings and deliver up to one teraFLOPS of compute power. They also support CrossFireX technology, GDDR5 memory and DirectX 10.1 amongst other things as well.

“We’re proud to highlight ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4870 as the first notebook GPU to support specially designed, ultra-high bandwidth GDDR5 graphics memory to unleash the full-throttle gaming experience normally reserved for the high-end desktop gaming rigs,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD, Graphics Products Group.

"Now, notebooks equipped with one or a pair of these speedy graphics processors can take on just about any PC game and run them smoothly at their maximum option settings."

The Mobility Radeon HD 4600 and 4500 series GPUs are focused more on multimedia and, using the second generation Unified Video Decoder, they can play the most intensive Blu-ray movies smoothly. This not only reduces CPU usage, but also improves power consumption as well.

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics processors have been designed into quality notebooks from many leading notebook manufacturers such as Asus, MSI and others, with models planned for availability beginning in Q1 2009.

Discuss in the forums.
Quote C-Sniper 9th January 2009, 22:36
Any stats on power consumption and Thermal output?

Nice to See these graphics cards making their way into the mobile market.
Quote dec 10th January 2009, 00:49
I'll get the shovel for the GeForceM 9-series.....
Quote Goty 10th January 2009, 02:59
Now THIS is what I've been waiting for. Don't get me wrong, I like my GeForce 9400M, but the issues I've been having with their Linux drivers lately have been ridiculous.
Quote DXR_13KE 10th January 2009, 11:47
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Originally Posted by Goty
Now THIS is what I've been waiting for. Don't get me wrong, I like my GeForce 9400M, but the issues I've been having with their Linux drivers lately have been ridiculous.

they wont go away with ATI drivers...

i wonder if i can pop one of these as a replacement of a 3470.... or if i can replace it at all... or if i can ask asus to replace it for me...
Quote Rich_13 10th January 2009, 12:49
No chance of Asus doing that for you mate. would be interesting to see if they can be swapped out. It'll most likely be how the cooling solution is implimented which'll be there problem if they are using a standard MXM interface... (i'm just guessing atm)
Quote Goty 10th January 2009, 19:27
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Originally Posted by DXR_13KE
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Originally Posted by Goty
Now THIS is what I've been waiting for. Don't get me wrong, I like my GeForce 9400M, but the issues I've been having with their Linux drivers lately have been ridiculous.

they wont go away with ATI drivers...

i wonder if i can pop one of these as a replacement of a 3470.... or if i can replace it at all... or if i can ask asus to replace it for me...

The newest fglrx works great with my 4870 on my desktop while almost every NVIDIA drive I install has problems corrupting my desktop. Maybe it's just me, but NVIDIA hasn't been able to provide me with a decent Linux driver since I've owned my laptop.
Quote DXR_13KE 11th January 2009, 00:35
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Originally Posted by Goty
The newest fglrx works great with my 4870 on my desktop while almost every NVIDIA drive I install has problems corrupting my desktop. Maybe it's just me, but NVIDIA hasn't been able to provide me with a decent Linux driver since I've owned my laptop.

ironic... i remember a time when you could only do that fancy stuff with a nvidia... now AMD is launching their own linux drivers... the world is upside down it tell you!!
Quote Nature 11th January 2009, 01:17
I also am concerned about heat.... The 4000 series biggest flaw. Will that translate into notebooks? A little late too.

"Now, notebooks equipped with one or a pair of these speedy graphics processors can take on just about any PC game and run them smoothly at their maximum option settings."

But at how many FPS I wonder?
Quote V3ctor 12th January 2009, 08:52
Although my mobile HD2600 can play games nicely... I would really like to upgrade to one of these babies... Just hope that Toshiba can make the exchange :D Do they offer any €€ for my HD2600? I don't want to put in my graveyard of graphics cards... :/
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