AMD 690G and 690V chipset launch tomorrow

Posted on Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 15:05:14 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Tomorrow AMD is expected to announce its new 690G and 690V chipsets for the AMD platform.

AMD’s 690-family hit plenty of snags along its development cycle. Early roadmaps showed a 2H’2006 launch, however, AMD kept pushing the launch back. Motherboard vendors blamed the delayed launch on AMD for multiple delays with the RS690. AMD’s discrete RX690 variant that was to launch in the same timeframe as RS690 has yet to make an appearance.

The integrated ATI Radeon X1250 and X1200 graphics cores are identical, in terms of 3D capabilities. Although the ATI Radeon X700-series provides the foundation for the ATI Radeon X1250/X1200 IGP, it is a neutered derivative. The ATI Radeon X1200-family IGP features two pixel-pipelines and two vertex-shaders. Unlike some ATI Radeon X1000-series GPUs, the pixel-pipelines have not been decoupled – the ATI Radeon X1200-family only has two pixel-shaders. AMD specifies a 400 MHz GPU-core clock for reference designs.

The following 690G and 690V motherboards will soon be available:

Albatron
- KI-690-AM2
ASUS
- M2M-VM HDMI
- V2-M2A690G
- V3-M2A690G
- P1-M2A690G
- P2-M2A690G
Biostar
- R68CA-M2T
- TA690G-AM2
ECS
- AMD690GM-M2
- AMD690VM-M
Epox
- AT690VI Pro
- AT690G Pro
- AT690G-M
- AT690V-M
Foxconn
- A690GM2MA
- A690GM2MA-RS2H
Gigabyte
- GA-MA690GM-S2
- GA-MA69G-S3
- GA-MA69VM-S2
Jetway
- M2A692-GHG
- M2A692-GDG
- M2A692-VP
MSI
- K9AGM2
PC Partner
- RS690MKM-AB1S
- RS690CMKM-A94L
Sapphire
- PI-AM2RS690MHD
- PE-AM2RS690M
Shuttle
- XPC ST22G5
- XPC ST23T

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AMD 690G and 690V chipset launch tomorrow