nVidia announces MCP61 specifications

DailyTech has received finalized specifications of nVidia's upcoming MCP61 family of integrated graphics chipsets. The MCP61 family will not replace the current GeForce 6100 family. Instead the MCP61 family will slip right below the GeForce 6100 family in terms of target market. The MCP61 family is a single chip design.

nVidia will have three variants of the MCP61 family-MCP61P, MCP61S and MCP61V. MCP61P is the premium product with support for one PCI Express x16, two PCI Express x1, standard definition video output, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 USB ports, four SATAII, RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and ASF 2.0 management. It will also have an sDVO output for external video output capabilities such as DVI, component and TV out.

MCP61S is the standard variant. PCI Express graphics support is limited to a single PCI Express x 8 slot. Two PCI Express x1 slots still remain. Available SATA ports have been cut down to two with support for RAID 0 and 1. Ethernet is limited to 10/100 too. USB ports have been cut down to eight USB 2.0 ports as well. MCP61V is the value part and is similar to MCP61S except for the lack of an external PCI Express graphics slot. MCP61V still retains two PCI Express x1 slots.

The MCP61 family supports a GeForce 7 class graphics, though there are no details specifications on the integrated graphics core. Gone from the graphics core is support for nVidia's PureVideo video processing engine. All MCP61 products are fully compliant with Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Premium with Aero glass. The premium MCP61P will have a 425 MHz graphics clock while MCP61S and MCP61V will be clocked slightly lower at 375 MHz.