NVidia announces nForce!
NVidia has announced today the long-awaited nForce chipset with integrated graphics for
motherboards. The same architecture of the chipset is utilized in XBOX console. There are no
other products intended for mainstream PCs in the market, which can compete with nForce in
terms of speed and funtionality: this chipset seems to be a very powerful and well-balanced
architecture.
highest system bandwidth available in PC platform architecture at the moment: 4.2GB/sec,
is even more than today`s perfomance champions such as i850 and AMD760 provide.
Moreover, CPU, GPU, and MCP can simultaneous access to the system’s memory bandwidth,
which means that those 4.2 GB/s will be fully utilized.
monitors CPU requests and looks for access patterns that it can successfully predict. When
it recognizes such access patterns, it exploits unused memory bandwidth to load its cache
with data the CPU is expected to request later. When the CPU requests the data, it is
returned to the CPU immediately rather than after waiting for the memory access. For such
requests, latency is reduced from 40% to 60%. Generally, it is L3 cache with the ability to
predict what data is needed for the CPU at the next moment.
Ethernet; Software modem; Home PNA; ATA-100; USB 1.1.
processing of up to 256-simultaneous stereo audio streams, along with a real-time encoded
Dolby Digital 5.1 cinematic audio experience.
