ATI Launches DirectX 11 Mobility Radeons, Targets Arrandale Laptops

From DailyTech: It was four months ago that ATI showed us the Radeon HD 5870 at a secret press event in Oakland, California. The media was suitably impressed by the demos and visuals, but were skeptical about ATI's plans for a top-to-bottom DirectX 11 product rollout for the discrete desktop market. The company has executed their plans on time though, and will finish their discrete desktop launches very soon. Availability is still a little tight to lower prices, but a quick check of e-tailers shows that most of the Radeon HD 5000 series is in stock, except for the Radeon HD 5970.

The situation on the mobile side is very different though. Design cycles are much slower, and many OEMs still use Mobility Radeons from the old 3000 series. The Mobility Radeon 4000 series holds a lot of market share, but those are mostly lower end models. The 40nm Mobility Radeon 4800 series hasn't been readily adopted by OEMs, and gamers have been left out of the cold.

Things are about to change, if ATI can provide enough volume to OEMs. The company is launching today the Mobility Radeon 5000 series, which includes the Mobility Radeon 5800, 5700, 5600, and 5400 series.

More specifically, there will be at least a Mobility Radeon 5870, 5850, 5757, 5750, 5650, 5470, 5450, and 5430. This information was buried in the presentation that we received in our email, as ATI would rather we focus on the series rather than specific chips. As a result, we have a generic chart of transistor and stream processor counts. The primary difference within each series will be the clock speed settings that ATI will set with the OEMs.

There will also be a Mobility Radeon 5165 and 5145, which we are guessing will be part of the Danube mainstream and Nile ultrathin notebook platforms which AMD will reveal at a later date.

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