14 DAY TRIAL // It was only a matter of time before AMD released its laptop version of the HD 6000 graphics card series and, sure enough, the first two such products have been made official.
Advanced Micro Devices is doing a full product refresh, both in terms of processing and graphics.
Already the Deneb Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition has been formally launched, as has the highly-anticipated Fusion technology.
For those in need of a reminder, Fusion is the architecture that spawned AMD's so-called APUs, accelerated processing units, which are basically CPUs with DirectX 11 graphics on the same die.
Now, in order to maintain or possibly increase its stake on the graphics front as well, the company delivered the first pair of HD 6000M GPUs.
The graphics processing units in question are named Radeon HD 6500M and HD 6300M, both of them built on the 40nm manufacturing process.
The HD 6300M, as the low-end offer, has 80 stream processors, a GPU clock of between 500 MHz and 750 MHz and will be backed, in laptops, by DDR3 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz.
The HD 6500M is the stronger, with 500 to 600 MHz in terms of speed, 400 stream processors and either DDR3 (1.8 GHz) or GDDR5 VRAM (3.6 GHz).
"One year ago AMD claimed the title of undisputed technology leader in mobile graphics performance and since then we continue to pave the way for mobile computing innovation," said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, GPU Division, AMD.
"With the introduction of the AMD Radeon HD 6000M series, AMD’s best just got better by cementing its leadership in notebook graphics,” he added.
“Through our feature-rich line of top-to-bottom next-generation notebook graphics, including AMD’s fastest performing notebook graphics processor, we’re enabling a superior visual computing experience in virtually every segment," Skynner went on to saying.
The features in question are, among others, the EyeSpeed technology (allows for smooth video and fast gaming) and the HD3D for stereo 3D viewing.
Many notebooks equipped with these newcomers should be put on display at the 2011 International CES, which is just a few days away.