AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800 Unveiled

Following NVidia and its new GeForce 9M, AMD/ATI unveiled its new notebook-dedicated GPU solution named Mobility Radeon HD 3800. Among the numerous features, hereafter is a selection:
▪ 666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
▪ Unified Superscalar shader architecture
▪ OpenGL 2.0
▪ Native PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
▪ 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
▪ ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display architecture
▪ ATI PowerPlay™ 7.0 power management technology
▪ Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
▪ DisplayPort output support
▪ HDMI output support
▪ Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats (High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats)
▪ Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
Apple will have the choice between both new mobile GPUs to power the graphic rendering in the forthcoming revision of the MacBook Pro. Interestingly, both bring hardware-based decoding of HD video, so we might finally see a BD drive, at least as a BTO, in the future revision of the MB Pro.