AMD intros Vista-ready chipset
InternetNews | at | by Mike
AMD today announced the 690 motherboard chipset, the first fruits of its $5.4 billion merger with ATI Technologies last year.
Integrated graphics have long been considered a performance laggard compared to discrete graphics, but AMD said the 690 will provide performance comparable to its ATI Radeon X1250 GPU, a respectable, but far from bleeding-edge, performer.
The AMD 690 series is designed to address performance issues over Windows Vista and its Aero graphical interface. There has been some debate over whether integrated graphics could handle the demands of Aero. AMD claims the 690 can handle Vista up to the Ultimate edition.