Users choose the amount of memory allocated to the GPU in the board's BIOS. A dynamic allocation technique, as seen in Intel's implementation, is not available for the nForce 2, meaning the allocated memory remains off-limits to the operating system - gone is gone.

The Soltek SL-75MRN with nForce2 IGP

The nForce2 IGP Northbridge

Technical Specifications of the nForce 2:

• 256 bit GPU (DirectX 7)
• Core Frequency: 200 MHz
• Memory: 128 MB max. (8/16/32/64 or 128 MB)
• Available Memory Speeds: Dual-channel DDR266/333/400 (Motherboard settings). DDR400 mit nForce2 400 Ultra
• Pixel Pipelines: 2 (two units per pipe)
• Hardware T&L
• MultiSampling FSAA
• DXTC (1-5), S3TC Texture Compression
• Anisotropic Filtering (2x)
• Z-occlusion culling
• Fast Z-clear
• MX memory crossbar architecture (?)
• Auto precharge
• TV-Out Encoder
• 4 texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per clock cycle
• 32 bit color, Z/stencil buffering
• Advanced per-pixel lighting, texturing, and shading
• Cube environment mapping
• DVD Hardware motion compensation
• Dual Display
• 350 MHz RAMDAC
• OS Support: Windows XP / 2000 / NT / ME / 98SE / 98 / 95 / Linux / MacOS
• 3D Support : DirectX 7, OpenGL v1.3