128MB ATI FireGL T2

[Arterion]

Anyone have any info on this card? I can't find any useful info (i.e. benches or at least a statement of the sort of gaming its capable of), and it's in a laptop i'm considering buying....

Cheers

 

[reddeathdrinker]

http://www.ati.com/products/Mobilityfglt2/index.html

Notebooks powered by ATI's Mobility™ FIRE GL ™ T2 workstation graphics accelerator, are designed for digital content creators (DCC), CAD engineers, and other professionals seeking the fastest, ISV-certified graphics performance on a mobile platform. Now engineers and scientists can perform analysis in the field or in the comfort of their own home and experience workstation class application performance.

* Powered by ATI FireGL™ 9600 Visual Processing Unit
* High-speed 128 MB DDR memory with 128-bit memory interface
* HyperZ™ III Technology
* Full support for the latest OpenGL® API and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0
* Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shading Language and DirectX 9 HLSL
* Dual Monitor support

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=1008691&postcount=7

Benchmarks with a 1.7GHz P-M

3dmark2003, latest build from website

(Apparently quake3 is a better graphical benchmark, but I don't have it)

The first column is the Omega Drivers, the second the standard driver. There was no real noticable difference.

Result 1 Result 1
File Name
Primary Device RADEON Mobility Fire GL T2 (Omega 2.5.36b) ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2
Width 1024 1024
Height 768 768
Anti-Aliasing None None
Post-Processing No No
Texture Filtering Optimal Optimal
Max Anisotropy 4 4
Vertex Shaders Optimal Optimal
Force PS 1.1 in GT2 & GT3 No No
Repeat Tests Off Off
Fixed Framerate Off Off
Comment omega standard drivers
3DMark Score 2548 3DMarks 2536
GT1 - Wings of Fury 94.4 FPS 94.7
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 15.4 FPS 15.5
GT3 - Troll's Lair 14.3 FPS 14.4
GT4 - Mother Nature 15.9 FPS 15.3
CPU Score 439 CPUMarks 463
CPU Test 1 52.1 FPS 54.8
CPU Test 2 7.3 FPS 7.7
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 629.1 MTexels/s 628.8
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1242.7 MTexels/s 1206.5
Vertex Shader 8.3 FPS 8.3
Pixel Shader 2.0 24.9 FPS 22.2
Ragtroll 10.2 FPS 10.1
No sounds 0.0 FPS 0.0
24 sounds 0.0 FPS 0.0
60 sounds 0.0 FPS 0.0
Family Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz
Internal Clock 1054 MHz 1040
External Clock 400 MHz 400
Description RADEON Mobility Fire GL T2 (Omega 2.5.36b) ATI MOBILITY FIRE GL T2
Total Local Video Memory 128 MB 128
Driver Version 6.14.10.6436 6.14.10.6392
VGA Memory Clock 203 MHz 203
VGA Core Clock 317 MHz 317
Total Physical Memory 1022 MB 1022
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows XP