AMD M690 Chipset

The AMD M690 Series Chipset offer exceptional experience in today’s graphics and video applications. Coupled with the latest AMD mobile processors, the AMD M690 Series Chipset delivers a Windows Vista™ premium experience and a new level of battery life performance for the AMD notebook.
For the first time ever on an AMD chipset, the AMD M690 Series Chipset features ATI Avivo™ technology, delivering vibrant images and smooth video playback for the home or the office. This platform delivers the most stable and reliable experience for commercial use allowing businesses to have the peace of mind of a highly capable notebook.
The AMD M690 Series Chipset is the first chipset with integrated digital output. Whether it is digital multimedia, 3D gaming, commercial applications or everyday computing, the AMD M690 Series Chipset is the platform of choice

AMD M690 Chipset Specifications
CPU Interface
Supports AMD Mobile and Desktop Client Processors
Supports up to 800MHz HyperTransport™ interface speeds
Memory Interface [For AMD M690T only]
Supports a dedicated display cache (side-port) of up to 128MB
New dynamic memory allocation scheme improves performance and reduces power simultaneously
PCI Express Interface
Compliant with the PCI Express 1.1a Specifications
1X16 slot for graphics expansion*
4x1 PCI Express general purpose links
2D Acceleration Features
Highly optimized 128-bit engine, capable or processing 4 pixels per clock
Supports a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 @ 32bpp
Game acceleration including support for Microsoft's DirectDraw
3D Acceleration Features
Full DirectX® 9.0 support
3D Texture support, including projective 3D textures
Anti-aliasing using multi-sampling algorithm with support for 2,4, and 6 samples
New generation rendering engine provides top 3D performance
Support for OpenGL format for Indirect Vertices in Vertex Walker
Motion Video Acceleration Features
Enhanced MPEG-2 hardware decode acceleration
MPEG-4 decode support
Hardware acceleration for WMV9 playback
Supports top quality DVD and time-shifted SDTV/HDTV television playback with low CPU usage
TV Out
Integrated TV encoder from AMD Xilleon™ products with integrated ATI Avivo™ engine
Supports Macrovision 7.1 copy protection standard (required by DVD players)
Supports the formats of component, composite, and S-video outputs
Multiple Display Features
Dual independent displays o Resolution, refresh rates, and display data can be completely independent for the two display paths
Supports both interlaced and non-interlaced displays
Integrated HD Audio controller for HDMI audio data *
Integrated LVDS
Integrated dual-link 24-bit LVDS interface
DVI/HDMI*
Supports a TMDS interface, enabling DVI or HDMI
1650 Mbps/channel with 165 MHz pixel clock rate per link
HDCP 1.1 support on data stream with on-chip key storage
DVO Support [For AMD M690T only]
Supports an external display via a DVO port (only available if side-port memory is not implemented)
Power Management Features
Fully supports ACPI states S1, S3, S4, and S5
Support for PowerPlay™ v.7
Support for Cool'n'Quiet™
Support for PowerXpress™
Clocks to every major functional block are controlled by a unique dynamic clock switching technique
Supports dynamic lane reduction for the PCI-E interfaces, adjusting the number of lanes employ to the task at hand
Dynamic self-refresh for the side-port memory [Applicable only to the AMD M690T]
Universal Connectivity
10 USB 2.0 ports
SATA Gen 2 PHY support at 3.0GHz
4 ports SATA AHCI controller supports NCQ and slumber modes
ATA 133 controller support up to UDMA mode 6 with 2 drives (disk or optical)
TPM 1.1 and 1.2 compliant; ASF 2.0 support for manageability control
UAA (Universal audio architecture) support for High-Definition Audio
PCI v2.3 (up to 6 slots)
LPC (Low Pin Count), SPI (New Flash Bus), and SM (System Management) bus management