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Originally Posted by Luca
I see... but wouldn't the 6200 be a downgrade? I don't know a whole lot about the mobile version, but the desktop version of the card is a budget-priced model like the 5200 was a year or two ago.
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Yes, the 6200 would definitely be a downgrade from the MR9700. It's performance (in desktop testing) is about on par with the X300 from ATI.
Again, I'm not sure that I would expect the 6200 in a notebook soon, for the same reason I wouldn't expect any of ATI's X series GPU's to be in a PB soon - the little bit documented on the 6200 makes it appear that it is PCI Express only, which I don't see Apple implementing for a minor revision.
In addition, the 6200 has turbocache technology which combines some onboard GPU VRAM with some shared system memory (dynamically allocated based on usage). I hope Apple wouldn't use this, given that we don't need something pulling some system memory away, even if it's only 32-64MB of it.