AMD is in the process of successfully moving production to 90nm, which will likely allow even further extension of their performance lead. Looking ahead, the next year is likely to continue to be a great climate for Athlon 64 processors as Intel regroups for their next CPU introductions. Athlon 64 is now the undisputed performance king among processors, and the retail market share has been growing rapidly for the Athlon 64 processors. In the larger marketplace, ATI has timed this introduction perfectly. However, the pioneer for discrete PCI Express graphics has been ATI, so it should come as no surprise that ATI is choosing round 3 to launch their first chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 - the RX480 discrete graphics chipset and the sister RS480 with integrated graphics. nVidia and VIA both introduce PCI Express graphics into the Athlon 64 equation. The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below. Clearly, the stakes for a new player in the Athlon 64 chipset market went up as Athlon 64 chipsets evolved.įast forward just five months and round 3 begins. The Radeon Xpress 200M IGP is a graphics card by ATI, built on the 130 nm process and based on the RC410 graphics processor (GPU). nVidia performed a more massive transformation of their nForce3 chipset, moving from the pedestrian nForce3-150 to the leading-edge nForce3-250 family in May.
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 SPECIFICATIONS PRO
VIA morphed their successful K8T800 chipset into the K8T800 PRO by adding 1000 Hyper Transport and a PCI/AGP lock.
In round 2 of the A64 chipset wars, the industry moved from the single-channel memory Socket 754 to the dual-channel Socket 939. Between that first report and today's introduction of the ATI RX480 chipset, a lot has happened. About 6 months ago, we reported that ATI would be introducing their first chipset for AMD Athlon 64.