AMD Debuts ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series For Notebooks

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Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, AMD have announced their new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series, the first DirectX 11-supporting graphics cards for notebooks. Way ahead of NVIDIA’s top of the line Fermi architecture, the Mobility Radeon HD 5000 cards are going to dominate the on-the-move gaming world as they are built around a smaller 40nm process, yet designed to push over 1 teraFLOPs of compute power, for most models.

Split into four key lines, top of the line is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 series that packs the “world’s fastest and most powerful mobile GPU ever designed”. Also bringing rich, astonishing realism and explosive HD gaming performance, are the Mobility Radeon HD 5700 and HD 5600 cards that are meant for thinner mid-range notebook as they come with 400 stream (visual) processors.

Other models include the low end HD 5400 series (with 80 processors), and the “absolute entry level” HD 5165 and 5145 which are built on the 55nm process and only support older DirectX 10-level visuals.

And just if you were wondering what’s the best notebook graphic card of the moment, by looking at these charts and seeing that the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is cornering NVIDIA’s GTX 280M really well … Think you got the idea!