ATI Mobility Radeon 9800: Notebooks Get Next Generation Graphics
by Derek Wilson on August 19, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
FarCry Performance
In a very impressive showing, the MR9800 does better than the desktop 9800 XT even when paired with a slower system under FarCry. Had we used the 1.2 version of FarCry in this test, we would likely have seen even better performance. Play-ability is pushed a bit with 4xAA/8xAF enabled, but these tests were done with the game running on the "very high" settings across the board. If 4xAA/8xAF is a necessity, 1280x1024 should handle it well enough.
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TrogdorJW - Thursday, August 19, 2004 - link
What are teh actual specifications of the MR9800 as configured in the Dell XPS laptop? I assume it had 256 MB of RAM with a 256-bit bus, but what was the clockspeed of the RAM and the GPU core? I'm betting lower clocked RAM is a major reason that the MR9800 sometimes falters in performance.