News ATI launches Radeon HD 6500M, 6300M

ATI has officially launched the Radeon HD 6500M and 6300M mobile GPUs.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/11/29/ati-launches-6500m-6300m/1

 

Awesome, this is why I've been waiting to get a new laptop Not that I knew this would come but I was secretly hoping for new hardware >

 

Looks promising for sure. Depending on their price they could be very popular.

But (getting there first ): ATI have launched these? The article doesn't actually reference AMD once? (Apart from in the picture)

 

Thats good news. If only they would create an equivalent of Optimus..

 

Guys, could you start calling these AMD 6500 and 6300? Please?

 

will these be as crappy as most ATI mobile GPUs?
seriously only had problems with my ATI GPU laptop =/

 

So essentially HD4650/HD4670 performance?

 

6500M sounds tasty.

Its performance should be noticably better than the HD5650 when GDDR5 is used and similar when GDDR3 is used.

EDIT: how have they calculated the GFlops performance, the 6300 seems dissproportionatly lower than the 6500.

 

"or around 650 million polygons per second."


What an utterly meaningless figure.....

650million polygons.......at what size?....with what effects...?....with how many light sources?......etc,etc,etc.

 

While ur at it Bit-Tech you might as well call Nvidia PhysX, Ageia Physx.
Get over yourselves already Bit-Tech, your not big or clever, just plain unprofessional in your persistence with the ATI naming.

 

ati, amd who gives a f**k, most people know its really ati, just amd decided to change the company name, for more cudos i would imagine, as its the ati stuff thats bringing in the money.

 

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=27522

AMD are forgetting the new name too

 

Alas, Mobile gaming is such a broken market; consumers get a few choices of which cards they want soldered to their system boards, and if they want something better, they can pay a premium for a laptop with MXM slots that weighs a lot more and eats batteries for breakfast...

 

I've been using my Acer laptop with integrated graphics + dedicated Radeon 5650 with no problem whatsoever. Switchable graphics with no rebooting and great battery life.
And I prefer this manual switching mode to the Optimus auto switch depending on the app being used because it gives me control over when to use the dedicated card (don't know if Optimus supports manual mode switching but probably it does too).
Only thing I can point as needing more work is the graphics support that is manufacturer dependent and Acer seems to like skipping driver releases from time to time (although you can still install ATI releases by disabling the integrated graphics in the BIOS, so it's not a big deal if you need the latest driver release)

 

Fixed, as you weren't looking so big or clever yourself.

 

are these replacing the 5650? fingers cross for fast adoption

 

I only had problems with my NVIDIA GPU Laptop (XPS m1330, had to return it 3 times, and another one with a 9600)

 

i think i'd care about this more if building your own laptop was easier to do

 

Will there be a 13" with 6500?? WAAAAAANT!

 

I think he was being sarcastic, either that or he is a 100% complete dickhead.