Advanced Micro Devices today introduced the AMD 690 series chipset, the company’s first chipset to combine AMD processor and platform technology with the ATI Radeon X1250 GPU.
“As a result of the ATI merger, AMD is delivering innovative platforms for the commercial and consumer markets featuring best of breed performance, visual computing experience, energy efficiency and stability,” said Dirk Meyer, AMD president and COO. “With the launch of the AMD 690 series chipset, AMD is delivering on the commitment we made to our customers, channel partners and end users to bring to them customer-centric innovation. Our largest global customers are already committed to offering AMD 690 series-based solutions, and more than 30 motherboard designs will be available.”
AMD 690 Series Specifications
CPU Interface
• AMD Sempron™, AMD Athlon™ 64, Athlon™ 64 FX, Athlon™ 64 FX X2
• 1GHz HyperTransport inteface speeds
PCI Express Interface
• Compliant with the PCI Express 1.1a Specifications
• 1×16 graphics interface
• Up to 4×1 PCI Express general purpose links
2D Acceleration Features
• Highly optimized 128-bit engine, capable or processing multiple pixels per clock
• Supports a maximum resolution of 2048×1536 @ 32bpp
• Game acceleration including support for Microsoft’s DirectDraw
3D Acceleration Features
• Full DirectX 9.0 support
• 3D Texture support, including projective 3D textures
• Anti-aliasing using multi-sampling algorithm with support for 2,4, and 6 samples
• New generation rendering engine provides top 3D performance
• Support for OpenGL format for Indirect Vertices in Vertex Walker
Motion Video Acceleration Features
• Enhanced MPEG-2 hardware decode acceleration
• MPEG-4 decode support
• Hardware acceleration for WMV9 playback
• Supports top quality DVD and time-shifted SDTV/HDTV television playback with low CPU usage
TV Out
• Integrated TV encoder from Xilleon products with integrated Avivo™
• Supports Macrovision 7.1 copy protection standard (required by DVD players)
• Supports the formats of component, composite and S-video outputs
Multiple Display Features
• Dual independent displays including two digital outputs *
• Resolution, refresh rates, and display data can be completely independent for the two display paths
• Supports both interlaced and non-interlaced displays
• Integrated HD Audio controller for HDMI audio data *
DVI/HDMI *
• Supports a TMDS interface, enabling DVI or HDMI 1.2 <1650 Mbps/channel with 165 MHz pixel clock rate per link
• HDCP 1.1 support on data stream with on-chip key storage
Universal Connectivity
• 10 USB 2.0 ports
• SATA Gen 2 PHY support at 3.0GHz
• 4 ports SATA AHCI controller supports NCQ and slumber modes
• ATA 133 controller support up to UDMA mode 6 with 2 drives (disk or optical)
• TPM 1.1 and 1.2 compliant
• ASF 2.0 support for manageability control
• UAA (Universal audio architecture) support for High-Definition Audio
• PCI v2.3 (up to 6 slots)
• LPC (Low Pin Count), SPI (New Flash Bus), and SM (System Management) bus management
The AMD 690 series chipset will be widely available from AMD partners, including Albatron Technology Co., ASUS, Biostar, ECS, ELITEGROUP COMPUTER SYSTEMS CO., LTD, EPoX Computer Company, Foxconn Technology Group, GIGABYTE United Inc, Jetway Info Co. Ltd., MSI Computer Ltd., PCPartner Ltd. and Sapphire. In addition, numerous system integrators are on board including Atelco, Bas Group, Formoza, Multimedis, Onda, PC Box, Seethru, Systemax, Unika, Unika Multimedia and ZT Group.
