Graphic Cards AMD integrates ATI Radeon X1250 into Vista-certified 690 chipset

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Although ATI's R600 graphics chip may have hit a recent snag, it seems that the company's Radeon X1250 GPU is coming along just fine, as it claims the proud title of "world's first" integrated graphics unit to receive Vista certification. The chip, of course, is a critical piece of AMD's latest 690-series chipset, which integrates Aero-capable graphics, 1GHz HyperTransport interface speeds, and support for Sempron, Athlon 64/64 FX/64 FX X2 processors, PCI Express, Microsoft's DirectDraw, hardware acceleration for MPEG-2/4 and WMV9, TV output, HDCP-compatible DVI / HDMI outputs, and the general smorgasbord of connectors we're all used to seeing these days. Putting the resources of the ATI / AMD merger to full use, the 690 family claims to be the first chipset from the pair that supports ATI's Avivo technology, which purportedly makes your multimedia experiences within Vista a smooth ordeal. AMD's latest should be available right now for an undisclosed price, but we'd wait for a few hands-on opinions before rushing out and skipping over a dedicated GPU in your next rig.

AMD integrates ATI Radeon X1250 into Vista-certified 690 chipset - Engadget
 
X700-like graphics processor for onboard is really awesome!! I think its the best onboard gfx out there... Should be enough for casual gamers!!
 
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Many AVIVO features (including 10-bit per component processing) have been implemented on X1250, bringing higher quality video decode to integrated graphics. Unfortunately, with this improvement comes some sacrifice, as the number of pipelines on the X1250 is cut down from the X700. The X1250 weighs in at four pixel shaders and like other X100 series hardware this also means four texture units, z-samples and pixels per clock. The major change when compared to the X700 is the number of vertex shader units have gone from six to zero. All vertex shader operations are handled by the CPU. The core clock speed operates at 400MHz and can be increased to 500MHz within the BIOS depending upon the board manufacturer. We have also overclocked one of our boards to 550MHz with a third party utility but performance unfortunately does not scale well due to the limitations of the GPU. Based upon these numbers you can expect overall performance closer to that of the X300 than the X700.
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So i doubt the gaming performance will be good.
 
NVidia's GeForce 6150 Chipset's performance is almost equivalent AMD's 690G Chipset!! On the other hand, in HDDs Test NVidia's SATA System (NForce 430) outperforms AMD's SB600. However it's a Great Landmark for AMD that it has started to manufacture it's own Chipset for it's Processors. Hope it gives tough competition in future in Motherboard Chipset's segment.

AMD's 690G Chipset Arrives - ECS AMD690GM-M2 Motherboard :: TweakTown
 
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