AMD releases DirectX 11 mobile processors

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) has released its line of DirectX 11 mobile graphics processors that it claims will bring improved graphics and application performance to Windows 7 laptops and peace in our lunchtime.
The Radeon HD 5000 Mobility series graphics cards are the fastest laptop processors ATI has released and can decode two Blu-ray streams simultaneously, if you're so minded.

Certainly it is the first designed by AMD that uses the native hardware support for DirectX 11 tools that are built into Windows 7 by Microsoft. These tools offload multimedia tasks to graphics processors rather than using CPU power, which can speed up performance.

The cards consume less power in idle mode by adjusting the graphics engine and memory clock and thanks to the 40nm manufacturing process. Battery life on laptops can also increase with native support for AMD's Vari-Bright on the graphics cards. Vari-Bright was initially a software feature, but hardware support could reduce power drawn by up to 50 per cent compared to software. Each graphics card can support up to six displays