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...

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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
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....

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)
RX380 Athlon 64
Sempron
(Socket754)
150 800? BI-DIRECTIONAL No AGP 8x SB300C, SB380, SB210
(IXP200/250)
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
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
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...

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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
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....

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....

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....

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8-bit HyperTransport links
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...

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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
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
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....

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...

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....

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
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...

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SATA Ports USB Ports Audio IDE Channels
(2 Devices/Channel)
Notes
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
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...

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
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
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 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...

  • Comparison of Nvidia chipsets
    Comparison of Nvidia chipsets
    - nForce :- nForce2 :- nForce3 :- For AMD processors :- For Intel processors :- nForce 500 Series :- For AMD processors :- For Intel processors :- For AMD processors :- For Intel processors :- nForce 900 :- nForce Professional :...

  • List of VIA chipsets
  • Comparison of AMD graphics processing units
  • Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units
    Comparison of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units
    This page contains general information about Nvidia's GPUs and videocards based on official Nvidia specifications.-Direct X version note:Direct X version indicates which graphics acceleration operations the card supports.* DirectX 6.0 - Multitexturing...


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