AMD has launched several new graphics solutions for notebooks and new processors for servers – the ATI XGP (external graphics platform) technology, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800, the ATI PowerXpress, and the quad-core Opteron 1300 series. XGP technology, a new external PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 graphics platform, is designed to deliver enthusiast-class desktop graphics performance and true multimedia upgradeability to notebooks, according to the company.ATI XGP capitalizes on PCIe 2.0 to deliver graphics via a connected cable to an externally powered and cooled device, delivering up to 4.0Gb/s bandwidth in each direction between the notebook and external graphics. XGP is fully optimized for new AMD Turion X2 Ultra (Puma) notebook platforms, which AMD also announced.
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(or just stop trying to run crysis on crappy dell inspirons!!!
On the ATI/AMD website it states "revolutionizing GPU performance on a notebook PC equipped with an external PCI Express� 2.0 connector." which hopefully means that this connector will allow a higher bandwidth connection than expresscard.
Does anyone actually know if any laptops exist yet with an external PCIe 2 connector?
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