Comparison of ATI chipsets
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| Codename | Model | Year | Processors Supported | Fabrication process (nm Nanometre A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The name combines the SI prefix nano- with the parent unit name metre .The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter... ) |
FSB/HT HyperTransport HyperTransport , formerly known as Lightning Data Transport , is a technology for interconnection of computer processors. It is a bidirectional serial/parallel high-bandwidth, low-latency point-to-point link that was introduced on April 2, 2001... Frequency (MHz) |
Crossfire Enabled | Features | Southbridge Southbridge (computing) The southbridge is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on a personal computer motherboard, the other being the northbridge. The southbridge typically implements the slower capabilities of the motherboard in a northbridge/southbridge chipset computer architecture. In Intel chipset... |
NB-SB Interface | Notes |
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| ATI A3 | IGP 320 | 2002 | Athlon Athlon Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices . The original Athlon was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors... , Duron Duron The AMD Duron was an x86-compatible microprocessor manufactured by AMD. It was released on June 19, 2000 as a low-cost alternative to AMD's own Athlon processor and the Pentium III and Celeron processor lines from rival Intel... |
180 | 266/200 (FSB) | No | Radeon VE IGP (Radeon 7000) 160 MHz, AGP 4x | ATI IXP200/IXP250, VIA VT82C686B, ALI M1535D+ | A-Link/PCI | HydraVision, Video Immersion Video Immersion Video Immersion is the name of a set of computer graphics processing technologies used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the Brand Name ATI uses to refer to the Video compression acceleration feature in their R100, R200, and R300 Video cards... , TV-out TV-out The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.... |
| ATI U1 | IGP 320M | Athlon 4 Mobile, Athlon XP-M, Mobile Duron | ATI PowerPlay ATI PowerPlay ATI PowerPlay is a collective name for a set of technologies implemented in a series of graphics adapters manufactured by ATI, including the Mobility Radeon, the Imageon handheld chipset, and the Radeon family of desktop GPUs... , HydraVision, Video Immersion Video Immersion Video Immersion is the name of a set of computer graphics processing technologies used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the Brand Name ATI uses to refer to the Video compression acceleration feature in their R100, R200, and R300 Video cards... , TV-out TV-out The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.... |
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| RS380 | ATI Radeon 380 IGP | Athlon 64, Sempron (Socket 754) |
150 | 800? BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | Radeon 9000 IGP, AGP 8x |
SB300C, SB380, SB210 (IXP200/250) |
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| RX380 | Athlon 64 Sempron (Socket754) |
150 | 800? BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | AGP 8x | SB300C, SB380, SB210 (IXP200/250) |
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| RS380M | ATI Radeon 380M IGP | Mobile Athlon 64, Mobile Sempron, Turion 64 |
150 | 800 BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | Radeon 9000 IGP, AGP 8x |
Mobile chipset powerplay 4.0 |
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| RS480 | ATI Radeon Xpress 200 | Nov 8 2004 | Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron |
130 | 1000 BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | Radeon X300 graphics core 300 MHz |
SB400, SB450, SB460, ULi Uli Uli may refer to:*Uli, Nigeria, a town*Mansa Wali Keita, the second mansa of the Mali Empire, also known as Uli of Mali*Uli , traditional designs drawn by the Igbo people of Nigeria... M1573 |
A-Link Express | |
| RX480 | ATI Radeon Xpress 200P | Nov 8 2004 | Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron |
130 | 1000 BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | SB400, SB450, SB460, ULi M1573 | A-Link Express | ||
| RS480M | ATI Radeon Xpress 200M (1100/1150) |
Nov 8 2004 | Mobile Athlon 64, Mobile Sempron, Turion 64, Athlon 64 | 130 | 800 BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | Radeon X300 IGP (Xpress 1100, 300 MHz/ Xpress 1150, 400 MHz) |
Mobile chipset powerplay 5.0 |
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| RS482 | ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 (ATI Radeon Xpress 200) |
2005 | Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron |
110 | 1000 BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | Radeon X300 IGP, 300 MHz |
SB450, SB460, ULi M1575 | A-Link Express II | No sideport memory |
| RS485 | ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (ATI Radeon Xpress 200) |
May 23, 2006 | Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron |
110 | 1000 BI-DIRECTIONAL | No | Radeon X300 IGP, 400 MHz |
SB450, SB460, SB600, ULi M1575 | A-Link Express II | |
| RD480 | ATI CrossFire Xpress 1600 (ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Crossfire Edition) |
Sep 27 2005 | Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron |
110 | 1000 BI-DIRECTIONAL | Yes, x8 |
SB600, ULi M1575 |
A-Link Express II | ||
| RD580 | ATI Radeon Xpress 3200 Xpress 3200 The Xpress 3200 is a new revision of the Xpress 200 computer chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD64 processors of the Socket 939 and also of the Socket AM2.-History of the Xpress 3200 chipset:... |
March 1, 2006 | Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron |
110 | 1000 BI-DIRECTIONAL | Yes, x16 |
SB600 | A-Link Express II |
Note 1: A-Link Express and A-Link Express II is essentially PCI-Express x4 lanes, so that any PCI Express capable southbridge can be used (such as ULI M1573/M1575).
Note 2: For the comparison of chipsets sold under the AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...
brand for AMD processors, after the completion of the acquisition of ATI
ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Inc., the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by Advanced Micro...
, please see Comparison of AMD chipsets
Comparison of AMD chipsets
This is a comparison of chipsets sold under the brand AMD, manufactured before May 2004 by the company itself, before the adoption of open platform approach as well as chipsets manufactured by ATI Technologies after July 2006 as the completion of the ATI acquisition.- AMD-xxx :- A-Link Express II...
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Comparison of Southbridges
| Codename | Model | Year | Fabrication process (nm Nanometre A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The name combines the SI prefix nano- with the parent unit name metre .The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter... ) |
SATA Serial ATA Serial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives... Ports |
USB Universal Serial Bus USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices.... Ports |
Audio | IDE Channels (2 Devices/Channel) | Notes |
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| IXP200 | Radeon 320(M)/330/34x(M)/350M/360 IGP | 2002 | 0 | 6 USB2 | AC'97 | 2 ATA100 | A-Link, 3Com 10/100 Ethernet | |
| IXP250 | A-Link, 3Com 10/100 Ethernet, DMI Desktop Management Interface The Desktop Management Interface generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer, by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. The development of DMI marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task... , MBA, ASF Alert Standard Format Alert Standard Format is a DMTF standard for remote monitoring, management and control of computer systems in both OS-present and OS-absent environments... , WOL Wake-on-LAN Wake-on-LAN is an Ethernet computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or woken up by a network message.... |
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| SB300C | 2003 | 1 (SATA 150Mb/s) | 6 | AC'97 | 2 (ATA133) | 10/100 Ethernet, APM Advanced Power Management Advanced power management is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS to achieve power management.Revision 1.2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996.... |
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| IXP380/SB380 | 2003 | 1 (SATA 150Mb/s) | 6 (USB 2.0) | AC'97 | 2 (ATA 133) | 10/100 Ethernet, APM Advanced Power Management Advanced power management is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS to achieve power management.Revision 1.2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996.... , 8-bit HyperTransport links |
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| IXP400/SB400 | Radeon Xpress 200 Radeon Xpress 1150 |
2004 | 4 | 8 | AC'97 | 2 | ||
| IXP450/SB450 | Radeon Xpress 200 Radeon Xpress 1150 |
2004 | 4 | 8 | HD | 2 (UDMA 100/133) | RAID 0 and 1 | |
| IXP460/SB460 | Radeon Xpress 1600 Radeon Xpress 1150 |
2004 | 4 | 8 | HD | 1 | ||
| SB600 | AMD 480/570/580 CrossFire Chipset |
2006 | 130 | 4 | 10 | HD | 1 (ATA 133) | RAID 0, 1, 10 eSATA, ASF 2.0 |
Note 1: For the comparison of chipsets sold under the AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...
brand for AMD processors, after the completion of the acquisition of ATI
ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technologies Inc., the company was listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by Advanced Micro...
, please see Comparison of AMD chipsets
Comparison of AMD chipsets
This is a comparison of chipsets sold under the brand AMD, manufactured before May 2004 by the company itself, before the adoption of open platform approach as well as chipsets manufactured by ATI Technologies after July 2006 as the completion of the ATI acquisition.- AMD-xxx :- A-Link Express II...
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Comparison of Northbridges
| Codename | Model | Year | Processors Supported | Fabrication process (nm Nanometre A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The name combines the SI prefix nano- with the parent unit name metre .The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter... ) |
FSB/QDR Quad Data Rate Quad data rate is a communication signaling technique wherein data are transmitted at four points in the clock cycle: on the rising and falling edges, and at two intermediate points between them. The intermediate points are defined by a 2nd clock that is 90° out of phase from the first... Frequency (MHz) |
Crossfire Enabled | Features | Southbridge Southbridge (computing) The southbridge is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on a personal computer motherboard, the other being the northbridge. The southbridge typically implements the slower capabilities of the motherboard in a northbridge/southbridge chipset computer architecture. In Intel chipset... |
NB-SB Interface | Notes |
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| RS200L | IGP 330 | 2002 | Pentium 4 (Northwood, Prescott) | 180 | 400 | No | Radeon VE (7000) IGP 150 MHz, AGP 4x, up to 1GiB Gib Gib may refer to:* A castrated male cat or ferret* Gibibit , measurement unit of digitally stored computer information* Gibraltar, British overseas territory* Drywall, construction material... of DDR-200 or 266 |
ATI IXP200/IXP250, VIA VT82C686B, ALI M1535D+ | A-Link/PCI | HydraVision, Video Immersion Video Immersion Video Immersion is the name of a set of computer graphics processing technologies used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the Brand Name ATI uses to refer to the Video compression acceleration feature in their R100, R200, and R300 Video cards... , TV-out TV-out The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.... |
| RS200 | IGP 340 | 533/400 | Radeon VE (7000) IGP 183 MHz, AGP 4x, up to 1GiB Gib Gib may refer to:* A castrated male cat or ferret* Gibibit , measurement unit of digitally stored computer information* Gibraltar, British overseas territory* Drywall, construction material... of DDR-200 or 266 |
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| RS200M revA | IGP 340M | Pentium 4-M | ATI PowerPlay ATI PowerPlay ATI PowerPlay is a collective name for a set of technologies implemented in a series of graphics adapters manufactured by ATI, including the Mobility Radeon, the Imageon handheld chipset, and the Radeon family of desktop GPUs... , HydraVision, Video Immersion Video Immersion Video Immersion is the name of a set of computer graphics processing technologies used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the Brand Name ATI uses to refer to the Video compression acceleration feature in their R100, R200, and R300 Video cards... , TV-out TV-out The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.... |
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| RS200M+ | IGP 345M | |||||||||
| RS200M revB | IGP 350M | 2003 | Pentium M Pentium M The Pentium M brand refers to a family of mobile single-core x86 microprocessors introduced in March 2003 , and forming a part of the Intel Carmel notebook platform under the then new Centrino brand... |
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| RS250M | IGP 7000 (IGP 360) | 2003 | Pentium 4-M HT, Pentium 4, Pentium M Pentium M The Pentium M brand refers to a family of mobile single-core x86 microprocessors introduced in March 2003 , and forming a part of the Intel Carmel notebook platform under the then new Centrino brand... |
Radeon VE (7000) IGP 183 MHz, AGP 4x, up to 4GiB Gib Gib may refer to:* A castrated male cat or ferret* Gibibit , measurement unit of digitally stored computer information* Gibraltar, British overseas territory* Drywall, construction material... of DDR-200, 266 or 333 |
ATI PowerPlay 2.0 ATI PowerPlay ATI PowerPlay is a collective name for a set of technologies implemented in a series of graphics adapters manufactured by ATI, including the Mobility Radeon, the Imageon handheld chipset, and the Radeon family of desktop GPUs... , HydraVision, Video Immersion Video Immersion Video Immersion is the name of a set of computer graphics processing technologies used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the Brand Name ATI uses to refer to the Video compression acceleration feature in their R100, R200, and R300 Video cards... , TV-out TV-out The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.... |
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| RS350 | ATI Radeon 9100 PRO IGP | 800 | No, AGP 8x | Radeon 9100 IGP | IXP150, IXP200, IXP300 | Dual Channel Memory | ||||
| RC350 | ATI Radeon 9000 PRO IGP | 800 | No, AGP 8x | Radeon 9000 IGP | IXP150, ,IXP200, IXP300 | Single Channel Memory | ||||
| RX330 | 800 | No, AGP 8x | As RS350 without IGP | IXP150, IXP200, IXP300 | ||||||
| RX320M | Mobile chipset, PowerPlay | |||||||||
| RS400 RS415 RC400 RC410 |
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (originally named ATI Radeon Xpress 200 for Intel) Intel Essential Series D101GCC/D102GCC (Grand Country) |
Mar 11 2005 | Pentium 4 Pentium 4 Pentium 4 was a line of single-core desktop and laptop central processing units , introduced by Intel on November 20, 2000 and shipped through August 8, 2008. They had a 7th-generation x86 microarchitecture, called NetBurst, which was the company's first all-new design since the introduction of the... , Core 2 Intel Core 2 Core 2 is a brand encompassing a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture. The single- and dual-core models are single-die, whereas the quad-core models comprise two dies, each containing two cores, packaged in a... |
1066 | No | Radeon X300 IGP | ||||
| RS600 | ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 | Aug 29 2006 | Pentium 4, Core 2 | 80 | 1066 | No | Radeon X700 IGP, 500 MHz | AVIVO, HDMI HDMI HDMI is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data. It is a digital alternative to consumer analog standards, such as radio frequency coaxial cable, composite video, S-Video, SCART, component video, D-Terminal, or VGA... with HDCP High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a form of digital copy protection developed by Intel Corporation to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across connections... , Dual Channel Memory |
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| RD600 | ATI Radeon CrossFire Xpress 3200 Xpress 3200 The Xpress 3200 is a new revision of the Xpress 200 computer chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD64 processors of the Socket 939 and also of the Socket AM2.-History of the Xpress 3200 chipset:... |
Sep 27 2006 | Pentium 4, Core 2 | 1066 | Yes, Dual x8 |
Dual Channel Memory |
Comparison of Southbridges
| Codename | Model | Year | Fabrication process (nm Nanometre A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The name combines the SI prefix nano- with the parent unit name metre .The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter... ) |
SATA Ports | USB Ports | Audio | IDE Channels (2 Devices/Channel) |
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| IXP150 | Radeon 9100 IGP | 0 | 6 | AC'97 | 2 (UDMA33/66) | 3Com 10/100 Ethernet | ||
| IXP210 | 1 (SATA 150Mb/s) | 6 | AC'97 | 1 (UDMA 33/66/100/133) | 3Com 10/100 Ethernet, APM, ALink/ALink II |
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| IXP250 | Radeon 330 IGP | 0 | 6 | AC'97 | 1 (UDMA 100) | 3Com 10/100 Ethernet, DMI Desktop Management Interface The Desktop Management Interface generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer, by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. The development of DMI marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task... , MBA, and ASF Alert Standard Format Alert Standard Format is a DMTF standard for remote monitoring, management and control of computer systems in both OS-present and OS-absent environments... |
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| IXP300/SB300 | Radeon 340 IGP | 2 (SATA 150Mb/s) | 6 | AC'97 | 1 (UDMA 33/66/100/133) | 3Com 10/100 Ethernet, APM, ALink/ALink II |
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| IXP320/SB320 | 2 (SATA 150Mb/s) | 8 | AC'97 | 1 (UDMA 33/66/100/133) | 3Com 10/100 Ethernet, RAID 0 and 1, APM, ALink/ALink II |
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| IXP400/SB400 | Radeon Xpress 200 Radeon Xpress 1150 |
2004 | 4 (SATA 150Mb/s) | 8 | AC'97 | 2 (UDMA 100/133) | ||
| IXP450/SB450 | Radeon Xpress 200 Radeon Xpress 1150 |
2004 | 4 | 8 | HD | 2 | ||
| IXP460/SB460 | Radeon Xpress 1600 Radeon Xpress 1150 |
2004 | 4 | 8 | HD | 1 | ||
| SB600 | AMD 480/570/580 CrossFire Chipset |
2006 | 130 | 4 | 10 | HD | 1 (ATA 133) | RAID 0, 1, 10 eSATA, ASF 2.0 |
See also
- List of Intel chipsets
- Comparison of AMD chipsetsComparison of AMD chipsetsThis is a comparison of chipsets sold under the brand AMD, manufactured before May 2004 by the company itself, before the adoption of open platform approach as well as chipsets manufactured by ATI Technologies after July 2006 as the completion of the ATI acquisition.- AMD-xxx :- A-Link Express II...
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- List of VIA chipsets
- Comparison of AMD graphics processing units
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