CES 2008: AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 and Mobility Goes DX10

AMD Notebooks Get DirectX 10

AMD recently announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series,which is a new family of discrete graphics for high-definition gaming and video in notebook PCs. The initial offerings consist of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 series and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3600 series. AMD showed Legit Reviews both of these cards and we snapped a couple quick pictures of the MXM cards below.

First up was the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 MXM card.

The next one we got to see was the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3600 series and as you can tell the MXM PCB is the same, but the core is different. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3600 series uses faster GDDR3 memory has more stream processors and is significantly faster than the Radeon HD 3400 series. Once we get some notebooks to benchmark in the lab, we will bring you some performance numbers and the full features.

The key take home message here is that AMD has a DirectX 10 mobile solution now, which is pretty cool!