Where's the Mobility 9600 Pro?

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I'm really getting tired of waiting! Is ANYONE selling notebooks with the 9600 Pro in them?

I just noticed that Dell is now selling notebooks with the Mobility 9000. Is this a new card? How is it compared to the 9600 Pro?

I don't know if I can wait much longer.
 
Notebooks are barely starting to ship with mobility9600 and difficult to get. The pro version will be along later this summer.
Dell has been using the Mobility9000 since it was launched last year. It performs very well and is currently the best all around video card for notebooks that is readily available; though dell has the NV gf4 4200go which is faster, but really more of a novelty desktop/mobile hybrid than a realistic notebook solution ;). The gffx 5600go is also barely shipping currently and hard to get ahold of.
 
Not available yet, but August 1st.

Not available yet, but August 1st.

Looking at ATI's site for the Mobility 9600, they only list one manufacturer, Eurocom that has chosen it - though we know there are many more. See http://mirror.ati.com/buy/onboard/mobile/mobilityradeon9600.html

Never heard of this company (Eurocom), but I would have to say that that the D500P looks interesting.

See http://www.eurocom.com/products/future/future.cfm

Supposed to ship in August featuring an "Incredible 15-inch QXGA Active Matrix LCD with resolution of 2048-by-1536 pixels."!

Despite the name of the company, they do ship to the US and Canada. Interesting

Brad Thurber
 
When you said a monitor showing 2048x1536 - even for a laptop - I had to check that out...and yep, it does go that high! WHOA! I didnt know that monitors can even go that high!
 
emacs said:
i saw these on display and for sale two weeks ago.
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=878

the specs are available at
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/specifications.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=878&part=1313
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Great for Canadian nvidiots! ;)
But...
"Shipment and Availability
TCL can only ship to Customer addresses in Canada. TCL cannot ship outside of Canada, or to Post Office Boxes.
Toshiba may deliver products in installments. Any delivery or shipment date provided is a good faith estimate. Customer acknowledges that product availability may be limited, and particular products may not be available for immediate delivery. TCL will not be liable for any loss, damage or expense related to any delay in shipment or delivery. "
 
godamn it, ATI better **** out the M9600pro before school starts in september..looking forward to buy the Compaq NX7000 widescreen with that
 
nanyangview said:
...looking forward to buy the Compaq NX7000 widescreen with that
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it often takes months of prototyping before a notebook reaches retail. hp and other manufacturers probably have m10's right now. just lots of testing, configuring and setting up production at the moment.
 
You know, I just dont get it....
This Voodoo laptop w/ the Radeon 9600 only gets a 3DMark 2001 score of 9656! I've seen the Geforce4 Go 4200 get scores in the 9000's (and thats without overclocking!)

Shouldnt the 9600 be getting higher scores?

Will the 9600 Pro get a much higher score??????
 
infamous_pb said:
You know, I just dont get it....
This Voodoo laptop w/ the Radeon 9600 only gets a 3DMark 2001 score of 9656! I've seen the Geforce4 Go 4200 get scores in the 9000's (and thats without overclocking!)

Shouldnt the 9600 be getting higher scores?

Will the 9600 Pro get a much higher score??????
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Remember we're dealing with a likely downclocked gpu here, and only 64mb cards. There's going to be limitations. The pro willl be clocked higher and have 128mb memory so we'll see more performance. The Ti4200go is no slouch in dx8, but we see in dx9/3dmark2003 a 175% increase in performance.
GF4 4200go 64mb
3dmark_2k3.gif

m10 64mb
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Also try turning on AA and AF and then compare the cards.;)
 
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yeah, I did see it get a much higher score for 3DMark 2003... It's just I want to see a laptop that gets something like 11,000 - 15,000 in 3DMark 2001 and get about 3,000-5,000 in 3DMark 2003. Now THAT would be an impressive laptop. Do you think the Radeon 9600 PRO 128meg would pull that off?
 
I think the m9600 pro will achieve at least 11000 Points in 3D Mark 2001, 5000 points in 3dMark 2003 aren't realistic.
 
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3k-4k in 3dm2k3 should be no problem for the m9600pro. Reaching 5k or over will likely depend on the cards memory clock and some significant core overclocking/cooling.
 
What are you guys talking about?? There's no way the 9600 is ever going to score 5,000 in 3dmark2003 - a desktop 9600 pro superOC'ed to over 500MHz core doesn't hit 5,000 so there's zero chance of the mobile version doing it.

Actually a score of around 9500-10,000 in 3dmark2001 is the best you're likely to get out of even a MR9600 Pro. The Inquirer ran a few benches with a 9600 mobility clocked at 350MHz core (which is what the Pro is going to be clocked, plus a little auto OC'ing which will add a little, but not so much) and scored 9600 from a sytem with a mobile P4-m 2.4GHz.

Ultimately the MR9600 suffers from being a 4x1 pipe design just as the dsktop version does, except that because it's a mobile card it can't resort to super-high clock speeds to make up for the architecture. It'll probably be a bit faster than the 4200go in the Dell 8500 for shader intensive games like doom3, but until then, for current games it's no faster.
 
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