Reviews

HardOCP
“So, why are we taking the time to talk about all of this? Well, last week we got to use a Mobility Radeon 9700 to play some games for a few hours, and it simply kicked ass. Yes, I know it's an overused term from the unimaginative, but "kicking ass" pretty much sums up our MR9700 experience.”

“We're certainly looking forward to getting a retail sample of the Mobility Radeon 9700 in our hands for a serious round of testing. The MR9700 without a doubt looks to be the best mobile gaming GPU we have ever experienced. ATI is pushing gamers towards the all-notebook LAN party much faster than I would have guessed.”
Kyle Bennett, February 2004

Anandtech
“So, the bottom line is: "does the M11 deserve the Mobility Radeon 9700 name, which ATI has given it?" Based on our results and experience with the M11 GPU, we would say that the Mobility Radeon 9700 name is backed up well enough.”
Andrew Ku, February 2004

Tom's Hardware
“With the launch of its new flagship mobile GPU, the Mobility Radeon 9700, ATi has closed the 3D performance gap between notebooks and comparably desktop systems even further. The results make one thing unmistakably clear: A desktop PC with a year old graphics card such as the Radeon 9600 can't hold a candle to notebooks built around the Mobility Radeon 9700.”
Harald Thon, Lars Weinand, February 2004

Extremetech
“We're encouraged by the Mobility Radeon 9700's performance numbers. Throughout the course of our testing, it stayed within spitting distance of its desktop sibling, keeping ATI in the driver's seat in mobile 3D gaming performance.”
Dave Salvator, February 2004

CustomPC
“The 9700 produced a framerate of 30.4fps in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory benchmark, which is stunning on a 2.4GHZ machine.

“Even more impressive ,though, is the comparison with the Go5700 Ultra, which only managed 24.3fps in the same benchmark.”
Ben Handwidge, February 2004