Awards

Computer Gaming World
Hardware of the Year Award - April 2003

Tom's Hardware Guide
Best Mobile Hardware - Readers' Choice Award - February 2003

Tom's Hardware Readers Choice
Best Notebook Technology 2002

Reactor Critical
Best Mobile Graphics Chip 2002

Hexus.net
Best Mobile Graphics Award 2002

The Inquirer
2002 Gold Medal

EDN
EDN Magazine's Best of 2002

Gamers Depot
Drool Award - November 2002

Computer Gaming World
Editor's Choice Award - December 2002

Maximum PC
Kick Ass Product Award - November 2002

Personal Computer World Magazine UK
Editor's Choice - November 2002

HardOCP.com
Top Pick Seal of Approval

PC Pro Magazine
'A' List

PC Pro Magazine
Recommended

Reviews

CPU Magazine
"[Mobility Radeon 9000] is a video chip you're going to see become very popular in many brand name laptops very soon."

"The Mobility Radeon 9000 will let you play first person shooters with a ton of the eye candy turned on. You want more than eye candy? The Mobility Radeon 9000 can deliver 2-sample antialiasing and 16-sample anisotropic filtering while gaming. It's simply quite an amazing thing to experience on a high-end laptop."
Kyle Bennett, December 2002

The Inquirer
"ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000, also known as the M9, is the gold winner, since it was the fastest solution shipping with DirectX 8.1 support, and accepted by dozens of manufacturers. It's the best of the best this year. "
December 2002

Laptop
"The ideal case study in modern mobile graphics is ATI Technologies' Mobility Radeon 9000. As any survey of performance notebooks from the first half of 2002 will reveal, ATI's Mobility Radeon 7500-series chip rules the mobile graphics world. The Mobility Radeon 9000 is the M7's successor and features a radically re-designed core."
William Van Winkle, December 2002

Computer Gaming World
"While mobile gaming has been moving in positive directions, the lack of available hardware shaders has always loomed as the platform's Achilles heel. With ATI's M9 though, that has changed. The Dell Inspiron that we received shipped with the M9, and we were immediately taken by the gains that hardware pixel and vertex shaders afforded us."

"The Inspiron 8200 scored an impressive 6999 [in 3D Mark 2001 SE]...compare that to the 5201 a similarly equipped Inspiron 8200 running a GeForce440 Go scored."

"The Inspiron 8200 with the Mobility Radeon 9000 is one of the best gaming notebooks I've ever seen."

"VERDICT: With help from ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000, the Inspiron 8200 is the most capable desktop replacement yet."
December 2002

Anandtech
"We would like to make one recommendation for those who may think that the Inspiron 8200 is for you:...Do yourself a favor and spend the extra money to go with at least the Mobility Radeon 9000."

"Switching to the dm-Asbestos demo [in Unreal Tournament 2003] shows something we have never before seen in a mobile review: a mobile system performing better than a comparably configured desktop one in 3D gaming. The Mobility Radeon 9000 has a 15% lead over the desktop GeForce4 MX 440 that we compared it to. The Inspiron 8200 with a Mobility Radeon 9000 at the helm seems to act as one powerful gaming machine."

"The performance lead that the Mobility Radeon 9000 enjoys remains the same as the resolution is increased. The Inspiron 8200 with the Mobility Radeon 9000 also performs 25% faster than the GeForce4 440 Go."

"...the [M9] notebook is actually gaming faster than a decently configured desktop!"

"We were again excited to see the Inspiron 8200 with the Mobility Radeon 9000 outperform the desktop system we configured. Running 12% faster, the mobile system had little problem tackling one of today's toughest games at reasonable resolutions."
Matthew Witheiler, November 2002

CPU Magazine
"When ATI announced its Mobility Radeon 9000, the graphics performance gap between desktops and notebooks officially vanished."

"ATI has also passed the competition in power management. PowerPlay 3.0 is ATI's third take on juggling power consumption and performance, and the user controlled options have never been more comprehensive."
William Van Winkle, November 2002

MaximumPC
"9/10"
"But the big deal here is the Mobility Radeon 9000 video chipset. Based on the Radeon 8500 core, the latest Mobility chipset is the first notebook video solution to include support for pixel and vertex shaders."

"So what's the upshot? Let's let iD programmer John Carmack explain it in his own words" 'The Mobility Radeon 9000 allows the current generation of games to be run at their absolute highest fidelity settings, and it's capable of running the coming generation of games.'"
Gordon Ung, November 2002

HardOCP
"Now here is a statement that I think will give you a good overall feeling of my experience of gaming on the Mobility Radeon 9000. I got so wrapped up in playing the game; I forgot to look at the screen counter. I was experiencing such smooth gameplay I honestly forgot what I was there to do, which was evaluating the gameplay. Does the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 deliver smooth gameplay even on the most demanding game engines while serving up eye candy, antialiasing, and anisotropic filtering? You are damn right it does." "HardOCP is happy to award the TOP PICK seal of approval to the Mobility Radeon 9000. "
Kyle Bennett, August 29, 2002

Anandtech
"That's right. Carmack stated that Doom 3 will be able to run smoothly on a mobile platform powered by a Mobility Radeon 9000. A next generation, highly intensive game able to run on a laptop. Why can the Mobility Radeon 9000 succeed where other mobile chips are sure to fail? It is because of the pixel and vertex shaders incorporated into the chip as well as the fast 4 pixel pipeline that it employs."
Matthew Witheiler, August 29, 2002

Extremetech.com
"nVidia clearly needs to quickly bring a DX8 mobile solution to market to stay competitive. For now, an MR9000 coupled with the fastest Pentium 4 you can get delivers the best mobile gaming solution, and one that's ready for this holiday's season bumper crop of DX8 games."

"The Mobility Radeon 9000 represents the next step forward in mobile gaming”
Dave Salvator, August 2002

Reuters
“ ‘ATI has long had a really strong leadership position in mobile products and this announcement is essentially the continuation,’ said Dean McCarron, president of Mercury Research, which specializes in the computer components market.”
August 2002

Rage 3D.com
"ATI continues to execute in the mobile marketplace with surgical precision and it shows in their market dominance. They have maintained a strong… no that is too mild… more like utterly commanding market share in the mobile graphics industry. In the last year since the introduction of the MR7500 ATI has only increased that market share, from 38% to more than 44% according to Mercury Research reports. ATI is poised to get the MR9000 onto the market rapidly as well with several launch partners for the MR9000, a number of whom already have notebooks that are close to shipping with the new MR9000 chips--companies such as Dell, Compaq, Alienware and Medion. That’s a far cry from the 4-6 months it often takes for new mobile tech to make it into actual shipping products."
Ryan Ku, Eric Amidon, August 2002

UK Gamer.com
"ATI's latest mobile GPU aims to bring high end gaming to laptop market."
Lawrence Latif, August 2002

MaximumPC
"ATI beats the competition with the world's first mobile DX 8.1 part"
Gordon Ung, October 2002

"ATI has busted down the final barrier with the Mobility Radeon 9000"

TechTV
"3D gaming on a laptop just got better."

"ATI has upped the ante in notebook computer graphics with the launch of the Mobility Radeon 9000, code-named M9. Currently shipping in notebooks from the likes of Alienware and Compaq, the Mobility Radeon 9000 is the first mobile graphics solution that integrates full hardware support of DirectX 8. This means that the per-pixel lighting and geometry effects seen in high-end desktop gaming video cards are now available in notebook form."
Robert Heron, October 2002

Bjorn3D.com
"ATI gave me the opportunity to attend a press-event for the Mobility Radeon 9000 and this article aims to give you an idea why I think it will be a LAN gamers wet dream!"
Bjorn Tidal, September 2002

PC Pro
"ATI's new mobile graphics chip is stunning. The DirectX 8- optimized nature test in 3D Mark 2001 SE ran consistently at 30FPS and above in 32-bit XGA. The end score blows every other mobile graphics chip out of the water."
Gareth Ogden, November 2002

Personal Computer World
“The most interesting aspect of this desktop replacement is that Dell has used the new ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 chip in place of the previous Nvidia Geforce4 440 Go. Just look at the massive 3Dmark 2002 score of 6,627 and you will be convinced!”
November 2002

Tom Pabst, THG
"Mobility Radeon 9000 is the best 3D solution for notebooks." "If you compare the chips on a power consumption level, Mobility Radeon 9000 is the best offering out there right now. This will most likely ensure that the new mobile ATI chip will earn the majority of design wins in the near future."
August 29, 2002

Computer Source Magazine
"With over 16 launch partners, finding a Mobility Radeon 9000-based notebook in the mainstream should be a no-brainer in the next few weeks. Our only regret was having to hand back the test sample back to ATI"
" The UT2K3 demo, which is based on the same game-technology, looked absolutely outstanding on the Mobility Radeon 9000. "
Sean Montgomery, September 2002

Performance, technologies and features listed above can vary with specific notebook implementations.
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