I saw a post on Fudzilla that shows the first shots of a motherboard based on the AMD 790GX chipset – a product that hasn’t really made its official introduction yet.  The chipset offers most of the features of the 790FX chipset but with the added benefit of having integrated graphics on it as well; slightly better than the 780G platform that we were initially pretty impressed with. 

AMD 790GX


Although we’ve already told you about the fact that the 790GX chipset supports Hybrid CrossFireX with two graphics cards, what we didn’t know was that the 790GX supports a local frame buffer, just as the 780G. Sadly, hardly any of the manufacturers of 780G boards have gone for the frame buffer option, as it adds cost, despite the fact that the performance increase validates the extra cost.

The Unika board uses a single 64MB DDR2 memory chip from Hynix and although this doesn’t sound like much, it adds to overall system performance, as the IGP doesn’t have to share system memory in Windows and the frame buffer is faster than sharing system memory when you’re playing games using the IGP. The 790GX seems to have been given an improved graphics core over thet 780G and it looks like it will go under the name of Radeon HD 3300.