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Monday, June 9, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
External laptop graphics
Today I wanted to reflect a bit on not a new concept but a concept that soon should be come a real product and has working prototypes available. Product at hand is external graphics solutions for portable - laptop computers. As you should know, laptops are not know for their graphical capabilities and most outstanding gaming performance.
While there are gaming laptops out there they do not match the performance of todays higher end graphics cards for desktop PCs. While CPUs are also not on same performance they do seem to be closer to their desktop counterparts.
To solve this problem and bring more joy of gaming to laptop owners 2 solutions are expected to be on the shop floors by end of summer.
ASUS XG Station. The concept and the prototype has been around for some time, but it seems that is finally reached the point where it is ready to be launched soon. It is to use Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT card as the power behind it. While 8600 GT is not the beastliest of things out there ASUS had to work around the limitations of existing ports on laptops.
Other solution comes from AMD -> ATi XGP, which means that it should bring more power behind it. From what I can see they use a new port that offers PCIe 2.0 8x speed with it and therefore should allow more powerful solutions then 8600GT. Fujitsu already have a box out there which uses mobility Radeon HD3870. Since there have no benchmarks out there it is hard to say what is the performance. I can see this becoming the dominant solution, as long as the newly developed port is not AMD laptop only port. PCIe 2.0 8x port should be enough to bring really high end graphics to laptops in near future.
The biggest problems about these solutions (not usre about ASUS one) is that they will require an external screen. What this means is that if you wanted a LAN gaming system, then you should get a desktop or hold out for a while longer. As Fudzilla reports (including picture) ATi in their solution plans to have it some time next year.
I would say that what we need now is to wait and see how these things stack up with each other... I can see this being a future as long it will allow to use laptops screen for gaming :)
While there are gaming laptops out there they do not match the performance of todays higher end graphics cards for desktop PCs. While CPUs are also not on same performance they do seem to be closer to their desktop counterparts.
To solve this problem and bring more joy of gaming to laptop owners 2 solutions are expected to be on the shop floors by end of summer.
ASUS XG Station. The concept and the prototype has been around for some time, but it seems that is finally reached the point where it is ready to be launched soon. It is to use Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT card as the power behind it. While 8600 GT is not the beastliest of things out there ASUS had to work around the limitations of existing ports on laptops.
Other solution comes from AMD -> ATi XGP, which means that it should bring more power behind it. From what I can see they use a new port that offers PCIe 2.0 8x speed with it and therefore should allow more powerful solutions then 8600GT. Fujitsu already have a box out there which uses mobility Radeon HD3870. Since there have no benchmarks out there it is hard to say what is the performance. I can see this becoming the dominant solution, as long as the newly developed port is not AMD laptop only port. PCIe 2.0 8x port should be enough to bring really high end graphics to laptops in near future.
The biggest problems about these solutions (not usre about ASUS one) is that they will require an external screen. What this means is that if you wanted a LAN gaming system, then you should get a desktop or hold out for a while longer. As Fudzilla reports (including picture) ATi in their solution plans to have it some time next year.
I would say that what we need now is to wait and see how these things stack up with each other... I can see this being a future as long it will allow to use laptops screen for gaming :)
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