AMD Radeon HD 7600M series: Features and Overview

Most reviews in the mediainformation for some reason affect only discrete graphics accelerators for personal computers. Many professionals only occasionally mention two chips, which the manufacturer created for different platforms. It's time to correct the current situation, because many buyers in the segment of mobile devices also have a desire to play in resource-intensive toys that demonstrate realistic images.

The focus of this article is a video adapter forlaptop, which supports the full performance of all existing on the market of resource-intensive dynamic toys, AMD Radeon HD 7600M series. The characteristics of the device and an overview of the functionality will help a potential buyer determine the choice of laptop.

Entertaining position of the manufacturer

Since the 7-thousandth series of video cards, the companyAMD made some changes to the technical process, which allowed to separate the segment of mobile devices from the production of discrete video adapters. Comparisons of the chips created for the laptop and PC are not relevant. For example, the graphics accelerator AMD Radeon HD 7600M series is able to outperform its computer colleague in some tests.

In the mobile solutions market, participating in the surveythe video adapter is positioned in the highest gaming class and, in most cases, is installed in notebooks in CrossFire mode (with an integrated chip). The discrete representative of the personal computer market is located in the lower gaming segment and is often purchased with goods from the budget class.

The claimed specifications of the mobile device

Any potential buyer, looking afterimagine a laptop for games, just have to understand the video cards. Since it is the graphics accelerator that is responsible for launching the game in a decent quality. The video card AMD Radeon HD 7600M series features clearly hint at the game quality of the device:

• 40-nanometer technology of chipset production, which is allocated on the market by its low power consumption, is involved;
• It uses modern GDDR5 memory working on a 128-bit bus;
• on one graphics chip the manufacturer placed 480 stream processors, 24 texture units and 32 blocks for rasterization.

Uniquely such characteristics for the AMD chipRadeon HD 7600M can demonstrate not only high performance in games, but also display a realistic image. Confuses only the frequency of the graphics core - only 600 MHz. As many users note, without overclocking you can not do. But the manufacturer has a vision of using a mobile video adapter - the CrossFire mode solves all problems.

Technology and capabilities of graphics accelerator

Important for the mobilevideo adapter AMD Radeon HD 7600M series performance characteristics, which are achieved through the introduction of modern technologies for graphics accelerator. The mobile graphics card is fully compatible with the DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.2 libraries. Only these indicators are enough to understand that the laptop is designed for games.

At this the manufacturer did not stop and installedon the chip: hardware tessellation unit, multithreading accelerator, texture archive (HDR), various anti-aliasing modes (TXAA, MLAA) and 16-times anisotropic filtering. The video card not only supports viewing and decoding of Bly Ray and HD streams, but also supports working with 3D images.

Oddities of the game mode CrossFire

Professionals recommend potentialbuyers in the mobile market do not save on a cheap integrated adapter (often the manufacturer installs a second card with less potential). As many owners note in their reviews, the problem manifests itself when the laptop is started in CrossFire mode (when two video cards work in pairs). Discrete graphics card AMD Radeon HD 7600M series has a capacity of 1024 MB, and the integrated video adapter is limited to 512 megabytes. When you start two graphics accelerators, the devices are guided by the smallest characteristics of each other. Accordingly, instead of 1 GB of working memory, the user gets only half.

About the software

Potential buyers in terms of choiceoperating system for a laptop, there are no other options if they decide to give preference to the video game adapter AMD Radeon HD 7600M series. Performance characteristics of the device directly depend on the installed driver, but compatibility is provided only with Microsoft Windows products. On the laptop is not forbidden to install other systems, but high performance in games should not be expected.

Owners of the same Windowscheck the operation of the update service, since after installing the operating system and the drivers from the disk it is found that the advertised support for DirectX 11 does not work. Developers of the operating system chose to control the installation of the libraries themselves. Therefore, the mobile chips Radeon HD 7600M installation of conventional drivers for full-featured work is not enough.

Real indicators in games

Immediately it is worth noting that the participant in the surveythe video adapter is not the flagship on the market, and therefore is not designed to run modern gaming applications in the maximum settings (Ultra). However, many games can still be launched in an ideal quality, but they are not able to overcome the psychological barrier of 20 frames per second. These include the following resource-intensive dynamic toys launched on laptops with an AMD Radeon HD 7600M video adapter: Alan Wake, Anno 2070, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Crysis 2 and similar applications.

Quite different things are with high settings. The listed games are capable of demonstrating from 30 to 50 frames per second. And when you switch the application to medium-quality mode, resource-intensive games easily overcome the barrier in 100 FPS. True, there are several applications for which the performance of the Radeon HD 7600M adapter is not enough. For example, in Metro 2033 with convenience you can play only at low settings.

Mobile platform requirements

Many users who choose their own gamelaptop with graphics accelerator Radeon HD 7600M series, overlook the other characteristics of the hardware of the mobile device. A video game adapter without a powerful CPU is unlikely to allow the owner to enjoy his favorite toy. It is better to give preference to devices with Intel Core I5 ​​or I7 chips on board. With the mobile solutions of processors from AMD in recent years the situation has not changed - they have nothing to offer.

You need to pay attention and RAM, butits volume depends more on the installed operating system. If the user prefers to use a 64-bit platform, the memory must be at least 8 GB. In other cases, four gigabytes is enough. Do not forget about the hard drive. The system must have a solid state SSD drive.

Finally

Conducted on the mobile video adapter AMDRadeon HD 7600M series review proves once again that owners of laptops can afford resource-intensive dynamic games. After all, in fact, a discrete video adapter for a desktop PC is no different from a mobile version. The same technical process, the same technology and innovation. Naturally, the same result, only in conditions of complete autonomy and mobility.

Do not forget about using the laptop inworking purposes. Complex mathematical calculations, work with 3D-objects, video encoding, graphics processing - all this on a hardware level is supported by a video game adapter, created for mobile platforms. No restrictions.