AMD company promised to release in February 2008, an integrated chipsets RS780 with support for DirectX 10 and UVD technology .
Today we have more detailed information on this subject. The integrated chipsets RS780 will be released in January, 2008, its budget chipsets version is the RS740. In the second quarter in mass market the RS780C and expensive RS780D will appear. The Cost of motherboard based on these chipsets is as follows:
- RS780D-> More than $ 120;
- RS780-> $ 90-120;
- RS780C-> $ 60-80;
- RS740-> $ 40-60.
In addition to supporting the processor Socket AM2 +, HyperTransport 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0, chipsets RS780 will offer support UVD second-generation technology, accelerating decoding H.264 and VC-1 at the hardware level. it support interfaces HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, and as well as HDCP. Technology Hybrid CrossFire X will combine the resources of discrete and integrated graphics core.