Sunday, December 14th 2008
AMD 880G AM3 Chipset Details Emerge
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is planning on releasing a new 55nm chipset by Q3 next year, that will power the company's Socket AM3 processors (Athlon X4, Phenom II X3, Phenom II X4). Codenamed AMD 880G, this chipset will become part of the AMD Live! "Pisces" platform. AMD 880G will feature an integrated Radeon HD 3450 (RV620) DX10.1 graphics core, support for DDR3 memory, HyperTransport 3.0, Universal Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2), Hybrid Crossfire with the on-board Radeon HD 3450 graphics core and a PCIe 2.0 x16 discrete card, Display Port/HDMI/DVI/SurroundView support. The 880G chipset will be paired up with a SB710 southbridge to deliver 12x USB ports and 6x SATA ports. This chipset is also said to bring OverDrive 3.0 to AM3 platforms.
Source:
VR-Zone
32 Comments on AMD 880G AM3 Chipset Details Emerge
I don't get what they are doing with the board, unless they plan on switching cores hybrid crossfire would be a joke. if anything you'd see a small gain and it would only work with certain cards, and by the the 5 series would have been released.
r600 = 2000 and 3000
r700 = 4 series only
r800 = 5 series
and rs880 seems to be a rehash of the rv 620 or they just.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_AMD_Phenom_microprocessors
And yeah, kinda. They're stripped down, but not as badly as Duron/Celeron. In fact, the lack of an L3 cache may attract me to them because it should bring down price while increasing potential clock speed...