5. Simulating Mobility RADEON

We already mentioned it above that ATi is currently not supplying any test samples of Mobility RADEON. The Canadian company is even making a huge secret about the notebook OEM that will introduce the new chip. However, we are in the lucky situation to know that Mobility RADEON is actually derived from ATi's new low-cost desktop chip RADEON VE, giving us an excellent chance to simulate it.

ATi's Mobility RADEON chip is based on RADEON VE. For our simulation of the Mobility RADEON we used an ATi engineering sample RADEON VE card with 32 MB DDR memory and altered the memory as well as core clock. Our testing is most likely going to show close to best-case results because of the 32 MB video memory on the test card. However, the chip and memory were not clocked at the theoretical maximum of 200 MHz, which on the other hand might not be found in any future notebook using Mobility RADEON anyway.