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Quake 3 on Intel GMA 500

If you don’t get a netbook with Nvidia’s Ion chip, then you’re stuck with the much disliked Intel integrated graphics solution. With the N270/N280 Atom processors you get Intel GMA 950, but  the Z series Atom chips (Z520/Z530) are bundled with a superior graphics solution, the Intel GMA 500.  It’s still uncertain whether the PineTrail chips, the successor for the N270/N280 will use Intel’s GMA 500 or GMA 3150.

Many netbooks and thin & light laptops shipping with Intel’s GMA 500 graphics ship with HDMI ports for HD video output, and taking things a step further at Mobile Dec Camp in Germany, Martin Mohring from the Linux Foundation demonstrated several mobile devices playing HD video and graphically intensive video games including Quake III. The most impressive demo showed an MSI Wind U115, powered by an Atom Z530 and GMA 500, running Quake III in HD resolutions on an external display at about 35 frames per second.

Check out the video after the break.

Via Liliputing.