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Arun · 03-Feb-2007, 11:04

Digitimes is reporting that AMD is indeed on track to deliver the 690 Series chipset family by the end of February. As expected, it is a two-chip solution, with the SB600 complementing the northbridge. We talked about the various northbridge SKUs in a previous news piece.

NVIDIA's roadmaps for the AMD platform surprisingly don't seem to have leaked yet, so at this point, it even looks like NVIDIA isn't going to compete in that higher-end part of the AMD IGP market in the coming months. The RS690G is a four pipeline design, unlike the previous AMD and NVIDIA parts which all only had two; furthermore, the 690G is limited to supporting PS2.0b, but sports AVIVO video functionality, which might be a fair bit more important for the target market.

mczak · 05-Feb-2007, 11:55

imho an interesting design, a reduced rv410 3d core (make no mistake, it's in the same class as a good old r9600/x300, not X700, but since it supports ps 2.0b I guess that makes it r4xx generation) with a r5xx avivo display engine.
Should be quite decent for an igp with 4 pixel pipelines, though I wonder if it has any hw vertex shader units (my guess would be no).

03-Feb-2007, 11:04	#1
Arun Unknown. Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: UK Posts: 4,877	AMD 690 Series in late February Digitimes is reporting that AMD is indeed on track to deliver the 690 Series chipset family by the end of February. As expected, it is a two-chip solution, with the SB600 complementing the northbridge. We talked about the various northbridge SKUs in a previous news piece. NVIDIA's roadmaps for the AMD platform surprisingly don't seem to have leaked yet, so at this point, it even looks like NVIDIA isn't going to compete in that higher-end part of the AMD IGP market in the coming months. The RS690G is a four pipeline design, unlike the previous AMD and NVIDIA parts which all only had two; furthermore, the 690G is limited to supporting PS2.0b, but sports AVIVO video functionality, which might be a fair bit more important for the target market.

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05-Feb-2007, 11:55	#2
mczak Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2,438	imho an interesting design, a reduced rv410 3d core (make no mistake, it's in the same class as a good old r9600/x300, not X700, but since it supports ps 2.0b I guess that makes it r4xx generation) with a r5xx avivo display engine. Should be quite decent for an igp with 4 pixel pipelines, though I wonder if it has any hw vertex shader units (my guess would be no).

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