NVIDIA follows its last week’s 9400M laptop chipset announcement with 9400 and 9300 desktop chipset announcement. NVIDIA said that the company was approached by an unnamed computer maker with a challenge to deliver a desktop chipsets that integrates full system I/O and discrete-level graphics performance in one-half the size of previous integrated graphics solutions.
The result of the challenge was GeForce 9300 and 9400 chipsets. The chipsets integrates a 16-core graphics chip with the motherboard that includes all the I/O connections. The chipset will support, CUDA, PureVideo HD, Hybrid SLI, uncompressed LPCM 7.1 audio, Dual DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI.
“We’ve combined the power of three different chips into one highly compact and efficient GPU,” said Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business unit at NVIDIA. “In doing so, we’ve redefined the level of performance people can expect from a motherboard solution to enrich visual computing experiences for mainstream systems. You can now have the performance of a discrete GPU in a small form factor PC.”
NVIDIA says that the size of the new desktop chipset is comparable to a laptop chipset and hence it can be used in small form factor desktops like Mac mini.