Mobility HD5000 family preview

More details here:

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3711&p=1

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Newsent...16e9951.0.html

Here are some more precise details about the number of transistors the chips have:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18238

It looks like AMD have followed Nvidia in stupid naming for their mobile parts!! The Mobility HD5800 series is actually a mobile version of the desktop HD5770!! :(

The Mobility HD5700 and HD5600 series are based on the desktop HD5670 it seems and have 400 stream processors.

The interesting thing is that the Mobility HD5400 series has the same number of stream processors as the Mobility HD4570. Hence it looks like the low end HD5000 series desktop parts probably will still have 80 stream processors but will be clocked much higher.

However the new parts seem to have much higher GPU clocks and more memory bandwidth too so there should be still a decent performance increase over the previous generation though!