AMD 880G to get DVD upscaling support?

Posted on Wednesday, March 11 2009 @ 2:26 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

OCWorkBench published some snips about the AMD 880G (RS880) chipset, which is expected in the second quarter of the year. The site says this chipset will have an enhanced integrated video feature, with support for DVD upscaling to Full HD.

It is said that this new chipset have the features of a RV620 or HD3450 class level features. It supports DX10.1, UVD2, hardware decoding of H.264, VC-1, MPEG2. It also has a DVD Upscaling function that transforms existing DVD by upscaling them to Full HD of 1920x1080.

This North bridge can be paired with existing SB 750 or SB 710 chipset south bridge.

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