management technology with descriptive hockey lingo. Powerplay is a lot more than its name implies. For the Mobility Radeon 7500, Powerplay provides dynamic voltage and frequency modulation, which reduces power consumption. Powerplay features clock speed and...

Powerplay In Practice: Not (Yet) Ready For Action. directx9 to go. Finally, after weeks of delays and waiting, notebooks with ATi's DirectX 9-compatible Mobility Radeon 9600 chip have arrived. Can ATi break the magical 300 MHz core-clock barrier and snatch...

• -Powerplay 4: Speed To Fit Your Needs, Continued
• -Powerplay 4: Speed To Fit Your Needs

and Powerplay settings. As this chart shows, the average frame rate drops by as much as 75% when Powerplay is activated. To ascertain the effects of Powerplay on the battery life, we proceeded as follows: To simulate a continuous "3D graphics load" we ran...

• -Powerplay - Now It Works!, Continued
• -Powerplay - Now It Works!

Effect Powerplay Settings On Battery Life. desktop graphics ambitions. ATi's high-end mobile graphics processor, the Mobility Radeon 9800 (M18), on paper, offers superior specs on all fronts. With eight pixel pipelines and a 256 bit memory interface, will ATi's...

• -Effect Of Powerplay Settings On Frame Rates

power management. ATi told us that the first shipping notebooks with Mobility Radeon 9000 will not have Powerplay enabled, because it will take some more time until the Powerplay software for the new chip has been fully developed and then validated by the OEMs....