Nvidia has officially unveiled the 9300 and 9400 chipsets and offered a few more details on top of promising a 5x increase in performance compared to Intel's fastest G45 integrated graphics chipset.Both chipsets have 16 stream processors, but they differ in clock speeds. The 9300 has a core clock of 450MHz, with 1.2GHz stream processors, while the 9400 has a 580MHz core clock and 1.4GHz stream processors. While they are meant to compete in the low-end sector, Nvidia claims they'll still get an average of 30fps in a number of top games at minimum settings, this is not saying much but games such as Crysis will at least be playable.
The new chipsets will be able to run high-definition video, support Intel's Core 2 processors, and can also be chained together with another Nvidia discrete GPU to substantially enhance graphical performance such as Apple did in its MacBook Pro lines, teaming the 9400M with the 9600M.
Tried to calculate in gigaflops, but things don't seem to make sense. The data I can get is not uniform so I can't get how many stream processors I have.
Edit : 3 * 560MHz * 12 SPs = 20Gigaflops for my 7600GT? How should I believe that...
Also, you cannot compare the computational power of unified shader chips to old seperated shader unit chips using that method.
and the title says 9400 chipset
hint : the gpu reside in chipset
hint : the gpu reside in chipset
Yes... A chipset not necessarily made by Nvidia.
e.g. My Intel chipset based laptop, which has an Nvidia GF Go 6600, but does not have an Nvidia chipset (as in the motherboard), just an Nvidia graphics card.
Nobody ever said Nvidia was "getting out of the chipset game" with regards to their graphics cards, merely the nForce series of motherboard chipsets.
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