No more discrete chipsets from Nvidia

[virtualrain]

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 16:37
Santa Clara (CA) - Current and future owners of Nvidia’s nForce 790i Ultra SLI and SLI chipsets own a piece of history: Nvidia confirmed to TG Daily that it is now focusing on delivering chipsets with integrated graphics.

Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia's PR manager for platform products told us that the company will be starting to implement graphics in chipsets by default beginning with the nForce 700-series for AMD. The manufacturer will be using the mGPU for HybridPower operation. “For example, the nForce 780a is a high-end motherboard with an integrated [graphics] core," Del Rizzo said.

Graphics chipset always has a low-end tone to it, but Nvidia’s announcement does not mean that the company will stop creating high-end chipsets, but rather work on expanding the power saving features of upcoming desktop and notebook parts.

The goal of this move is also to connect a display through DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort or a similar cable directly to the motherboard. One, two, three or four discrete GPUs would provide 3D performance when required.

This approach could also address the rising issue of latency. The fact that the frame buffer will now be located at the same spot for all GPUs should actually benefit the consumer.

Source: TG Daily

Good/Bad/Ugly?

[irev210]

Sounds like a nvidia approach to make sure they keep gaining market share

[xenolith]

So does this spell the end of SLI?

[iddqd]

So does this spell the end of SLI?

What does one thing have to do with another?

[xenolith]

What does one thing have to do with another?

I guess I reading it wrong. For second there I thought they were going to only focus on delivering chipsets with integrated graphics.

[kromosto]

if they can done it well it is good so need to wait and see

[fellix_bg]

Looks like the video display technology is following the audio path -- you can hardly find a main board without integrated AC'97/HDA output, so... you guess it.

There was a topic about the [possible] return of the quasi-software 3D engines with the next generation of powerful enough CPU architectures with fused GPU capabilities and so on.

[zabomb4163]

this will limit overclocks quite a bit

[Nicksterr]

Well considering the recent 780G from AMD can destory nvidia in that segment, they need to do something.

[safan80]

so when is the nVIA cpu coming out?

[largon]

I like the part that says "the company will (...) work on expanding the power saving features of upcoming desktop parts".

[hecktic]

nvidia doesnt care enough to label anything good/bad/etc.... they just want to turn a profit from anything and everything they get their hands on...

this is where other brands need to band together just to stop nvidia and then resume normal market practice

[RPGWiZaRD]

so when is the nVIA cpu coming out?

[largon]

nvidia doesnt care enough to label anything good/bad/etc.... they just want to turn a profit from anything and everything they get their hands on...

this is where other brands need to band together just to stop nvidia and then resume normal market practice

Sorry to burst your bubble, but nVIDIA is a profit seeking corporate - just like AMD, Google, etc. Their only purpose is to turn a profit from anything and everything they get their hands on.

[hollo]

Source: TG Daily

Good/Bad/Ugly?

FUD

No more discrete chipsets from Nvidia

incredibly misleading title

Santa Clara (CA) - Current and future owners of Nvidia’s nForce 790i Ultra SLI and SLI chipsets own a piece of history: Nvidia confirmed to TG Daily that it is now focusing on delivering chipsets with integrated graphics.

we already knew nvidia were planning to include a GPU on all their future chipsets

Graphics chipset always has a low-end tone to it, but Nvidia’s announcement does not mean that the company will stop creating high-end chipsets, but rather work on expanding the power saving features of upcoming desktop and notebook parts.

aside from hybrid-SLI which is a given it implies no such thing

The goal of this move is also to connect a display through DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort or a similar cable directly to the motherboard.

well no

This approach could also address the rising issue of latency. The fact that the frame buffer will now be located at the same spot for all GPUs should actually benefit the consumer.

this guy should be working at mcdonalds

[BullGod]

ooh yeah. We're back in the 3D Accelerators days. This is bs. I hope that the other manufacturers won't follow. I just can't stand integrated GPU's.

[Donnie27]

ooh yeah. We're back in the 3D Accelerators days. This is bs. I hope that the other manufacturers won't follow. I just can't stand integrated GPU's.

QFT! Like built-in sound, it's more $hit we have to unnecessarily pay for. Well, not me because I don't buy any more nVidia based boards LOL!

To the other guy, all business' are in business to make money. Business' have been known to Tank or go out of Business when trying to make too much too fast Folks will stay loyal to them for only so long.

[grimREEFER]

my only complaint is that it makes the boards cost extra, but if they have some type of good power saving feature that uses integrated while idle, that money will quickly be replenished.

[hollo]

yeah the change itself is pretty trivial, unless you have a tri/quad-SLI setup as your everyday computer. the article was terribly written.

[Arkangyl]

Umm, why is this a big deal?

Since their hybrid graphics (w/e it's called) which goes to integrated to save power NEEDS that integrated bit, hasn't it been their intention for a while to put a GPU in the chipset thus meaning that NONE of their chipsets ought be without graphics.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Copy AMD/ATI much? When will they come up with their own ideas For a company that has the market share that it does it amazes me that the only ideas they come up with are those from it's competitor.

[BullGod]

Why?

Because a better approach would have been to make the cards themselves enter into an idle mode. That would have been great. But this my friend equals lag. If there are more components working to get the same thing done there will always be lag involved. That's why I don't use SLI, because of the micro stuttering issue. Now they are practically forcing everyone to use SLI. Fluck it, I won't buy an Nvidia chipset in the future and that's that. They lost a customer already with this great idea they have...

[largon]

Eastcoasthandle,
Huh? As if iGPUs and power saving modes were invented by AMD/ATi...

[ownage]

Copy AMD/ATI much? When will they come up with their own ideas For a company that has the market share that it does it amazes me that the only ideas they come up with are those from it's competitor.

Yes i was exactly thinking the same

I wonder if there decisions have anyting to do with the QPI licenses from Intel. There are some rumors which indicate nVidia won't get a new QPI license and some rumors say they will get a QPI licenses for future upcoming hardware. Maybe nVidia tries to get more market share with other solutions to play safe with Intel?

[[XC] gomeler]

I just hope this doesn't kill overclocking on nvidia chipsets. Otherwise it's a great idea, I look forward to the day when a 10w integrated GPU will take over for my multiple GPUs. I would much rather it be a universal thing rather than a strictly platform based concept though. I can already see it, users using an AMD card on an Nvidia board will not be able to use the power-saving features due to driver conflicts.