NVIDIA will expand its assortment of integrated chipsets for AMD’s processor platform. Today we have the GeForce 6100 and GeForce 6150 chipsets with an integrated graphics circuit and at the moment NVIDIA is working on something to go between the two. GeForce 6150LE has the same graphical performance as the 6100 circuit (425MHz) but also sports HD PureVideo, which earlier only GeForce 6150 offered. This new chipset is expected to arrive soon as it is already being made. But NVIDIA also has a completely new integrated chipset called MCP61S coming. This IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) is different from NVIDIA’s current integrated chipsets as it has managed to fit everything into one chip, instead of two separate north and southbridges.
MCP61S seems to be a budget-circuit which only sports PCI-E x8 for external graphics cards and also HD PureVideo support has been removed to save on costs. Other features are comparable to the ones with the nForce 410 chipset which is one of NVIDIA’s budget-alternatives today. The chipset is branded Microsofts Vista Premium Ready os the future should at least bee secured.
