Tuesday, December 11th 2007
AMD RS780 Chipset to Launch in January
Information coming from DigiTimes, claims that AMD will launch its next-generation performance/mainstream RS780 IGP and value RS740 chipsets in January next year, while in the second quarter, the company will launch the high-end RS780D and mainstream RS780C. RS780 motherboards will be priced around US$90-120, while RS740 motherboards will come for around US$40-60. The RS780 supports AM2+ processors, HyperTransport 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0, while the IGP will support DirectX 10 and UVD (Unified Video Decoder) 2.0 for H.264 and VC-1 decoding. The IGP also supports DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI and HDCP. Hybrid CrossFireX technology, which is a similar to NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI, allowing the IGP to work together with discrete graphics cards for extra performance, will be presented as well.
Source:
DigiTimes
6 Comments on AMD RS780 Chipset to Launch in January
Thats a good price. So this will not support AM2+ like its big brother? Will it support all other features like UVD?
I'll need to see some numbers on the Hybrid X-Fire before it gets any consideration though, I can't imagine the performance benefit would warrant a 50-60$ premium.
ECS makes a 770 based board for $65.
So in each segment, barring those from Gigabyte, all boards are appropriately priced.