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Nvidia To Unveil AMD-Centric MCP72 Chipset
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Feb 09,2007

In what is great news for AMD fans, it looks like Nvidia will soon be releasing a feature packed chipset for AMD processors. Dailytech has reported that Nvidia in the near future will be shipping a new chipset for AMD processors. This new chipset has been codenamed MCP72 and will be NVIDIA's first HyperTransport 3.0, or HT3, compatible chipset and a successor to the current nForce 500-series MCP and the upcoming AMD MCP68 chipsets.

The MCP72 will feature support for AMD's socket AM2, HT3 enabled AM2+ and Socket AM2+ series of processors. It will also support AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 Agena and Opteron Budapest quad-core processors. The MCP72 is also expected to feature PCIe 2.0, which would make it perfect for the upcoming graphic cards from Nvidia's own stables and rival AMD/ATI. Finally the MCP72 will retain the dual gigabit Ethernet from the current nForce 500 series and will have six SATA 2.0 ports.

The emergence of the MCP72, we hope marks an AMD return in the price vs performance struggle. AMD has been struggling and lagging behind Intel since the emergence of the Core2Duo Platform.

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Intel's wildcard has always been its special CPU SSE series instructions, but that advantage has also dwindled away. While AMD's parts often do not support the latest Intel instructions at the time of introduction, the company does tend to integrate them in time to coincide with the release of software that uses these new features. In fact, if you look at the enhanced instruction sets in the latest AMD Athlon64 processors, you'll notice that it supports more instructions than an equivalent Intel Pentium 4 processor!

Perhaps Intel's one saving grace is that the Pentium 4/D can still overclock quite well, with a little inventive cooling it will achieve frequencies that AMD users can only reach with extreme cooling. Realistically though as nice as the round numbers are, these are empty goals. An Athlon64 may be clocked a whole gigahertz slower than a Pentium 4, but it still performs much better in benchmarks; the correlation between frequency and performance is pretty much dead.

On the horizon, Intel's upcoming 'Conroe' core is starting to look like it might give AMD a run for its money, but it's not available yet so comparing it with current technology is not appropriate.
avik @ Jun 04,2007
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