Integrated Graphics Performance: It's all in the chips
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By Lars Weinand
published NVIDIA nForce 2 IGP - GeForce 4 MX 440 Integrated, Continued
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
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