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ATI takes on VIA, nVidia on chipsets |
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Written by Phyro
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Tuesday, 02 November 2004 |
We have some more information about ATI's future chipsets. These are ATI's response to the move to PCI Express, and will compete with nForce 4 Standard and Ultra and VIA's K8T890 chipset.
 ATI takes on VIA, nVidia on chipsets
Radeon Xpress 200 G and non G will support all socket Athlon 64/FX and Opteron CPUs, dual channel memory, PCIe 16X + four PCIe 1X slots, PCI slots, eight USB ports, AC 97 audio, four S-ATA drives, two parallel ports and Raid 0 and 1. As you notice, it doesn't have any LAN support even though nVidia and VIA do support this feature.
So ATI has two chipsets on the way - one with integrated graphic and one without. At least for a time, ATI will remain alone in the integrated PCIe area and its chipset will provide quite powerful graphic power, for a chipset of course. It is based on RV370, X300 core and it will use UMA (unified memory architecture).
We are talking about full DirectX 9 core inside the chipset and this core should be much more powerful than Intel's 915G Extreme Graphic 2.
The discrete chipset will be pin compatible with the IGP one and the only real difference between them will be lack of integrated graphic core in discrete chipset.
ATI will continue its Surround view strategy where it will enable you to use up to three displays when you use an external ATI PCIe card and IGP on board graphic.
The ATI chipset is a bifurcated answer, just like VIA's K8T890 chipset but I am sure that ATI has to be price competitive as we hearing that it has already won some significant OEM and retail motherboard deals.
ATI is supposed to launch this chipset next week and to have it available shortly after. ATI RS400 integrated Pentium 4 chipset will come later.
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