ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:59 pm
by Apoptosis
ATI's XGP technology (eXternal Graphics Platform) is an external graphics solution for notebook PCs. ATI XGP is designed to deliver enthusiast-class graphics performance, true multimedia upgradeability and multiple connectivity options, revolutionizing GPU performance on a notebook PC equipped with an external PCI Express 2.0 connector. This video is of a demo system that they had setup at CES 2010 showing off Radeon 5830 graphics.
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:04 pm
by shamrok3
Cool! I can see this going far, although it does rather defeat the purpose of having a 'portable' notebook. I, myself have no use for is (9800 GTS 1GB in my laptop) but the applications for people with netbooks/low end laptops are great. I wonder when nVidia is going to steal this?
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:34 pm
by skier
i could totally use it, my laptop has a 2GHz Intel Dual core with 3GB Ram and, you guessed it, Intel integrated graphics i think this is a great concept, and hope it gets to be released for retail
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:39 am
by shamrok3
Skier, it already is out! Just very very limited. I think one laptop supports it, and the XGP is like a 3000 Series.
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:52 pm
by mx6er2587
its a shame this can't interface with a normal express card slot. I know lots of people who would love to plug their current laptops into an xgp and monitor for gaming at home and then just unplug them and take the computer with them when they needed to.
It's a nice idea if it catches on but I fear the required hardware support on the laptop manufactures part may kill this idea again.
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:51 am
by DMB2000uk
Sadly the expresscard slot doesn't have enough bandwidth for it to be feasable, which is probably why Asus never released their version of external graphics card that used an expresscard interface.
I've used an original Fujitsu XGP laptop (an Amilo sa3650 with an ATI Mobility HD3870) and I've got to say, the setup really does work, but like you said, it really needs to take off with hardware support, which I really hope it does.
Dan
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:00 am
by shamrok3
What they really need is some like USB 3.0/eSata Hybrid + More to make it feasible.
Re: ATI XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) Radeon 5830 Demo At CES
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:06 am
by hark
shamrok3 wrote:Cool! I can see this going far, although it does rather defeat the purpose of having a 'portable' notebook. I, myself have no use for is (9800 GTS 1GB in my laptop) but the applications for people with netbooks/low end laptops are great. I wonder when nVidia is going to steal this?
Well it's not like ATI is the first to make an external graphics device.
