the number of transistors is significantly higher. After all, additional power is needed to operate twice as many pixel pipelines and vertex shader units. To keep the MR9800's thirst for energy within bounds, however, the chip uses the "Powerplay" power-saving...

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Media Accelerator (GMA) 900, also found in the 915G and 925G desktop chipsets. Accordingly, the graphics core is DirectX 9-compatible, but not DirectX 9-compliant. The distinction is that while it has a total of four genuine pixel pipelines, the vertex shader(...

UMA) - is not nearly as efficient as a dedicated graphics solution. For one thing, integrated graphics cores as a rule have considerably fewer pixel pipelines and vertex shaders than their dedicated cousins. For another, the graphics core has to share memory...

fast or efficient as a stand-alone graphics processor with its own dedicated graphics RAM. Up to 256 MB of memory can be dedicated to handling graphics. Overall, integrated graphics controllers deliver noticeably fewer pixel pipelines and vertex shaders...

RAM in the LW60 operates a bit faster than in competing models. The LW60 owns the graphics benchmarks simply by virtue of its dedicated GPU and more powerful graphics subsystem. The MR X600 has substantially more pixel pipelines and vertex shaders than any...

deploys a Mobility Radeon X600 graphics chip. The MRX600 is ATI's first PCI Express graphics chip, out now for one year. Seen as the legitimate successor to the old AGP chip, the MR9700 , it likewise has four pixel pipeline and two vertex shaders, but unlike...

GT form boasts a 400 MHz core clock with 1 GHz memory speed, 7 vertex units and a 20-pixel pipeline scheme. In GTX trim, the 7800 upgrades the core clock by 30 MHz, increases the memory bus to 600 MHz, adds a vertex unit for a total of 8, and provides an additional...

Bandwidth 6400 - 7040 MB/s AGP 8x support Two DirectX 8.1 compliant programmable vertex shaders DirectX 8.1 compliant programmable pixel shaders Four pixel rendering pipelines One texturing unit per pixel pipeline Hyper-Z II Memory Bandwidth Optimization Smoothvision...