NVIDIA Renames GeForce 6100 and nForce 405

[Anusha]

The "MCP61P" is renamed GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a, still a single-chip design

AMD is not the only company playing the chipset renaming game. NVIDIA is renaming its existing MCP61P GeForce 6100 and nForce 405 chipset to compete with AMD’s upcoming RS690 in the marketing game. AMD’s RS690 hit a snag and has yet to launch in mass quantities unfortunately.

Nevertheless, NVIDIA has given the existing MCP61P GeForce 6100 and nForce 405 chipsets a new GeForce 7-series and nForce 600-series name. Under the new naming scheme, the single-chip MCP61P GeForce 6100 and nForce 405 is reborn as the GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a.

New name aside, the GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a are identical to the GeForce 6100 and nForce 405. While it may appear the GeForce 7050 does not deserve a GeForce 7-series designation, it is in fact a GeForce 7-series derived graphics core as previously reported. However, the performance of the MCP61P was abysmal and undeserving of the GeForce 7-series name and thus carried the GeForce 6100 name.

NVIDIA’s GeForce 7050 integrated graphics core features an sDVO connection for enhanced video output capabilities. PureVideo video processing is unavailable on GeForce 7050 IGP, unfortunately. It is up to motherboard manufactures to decide the video output capabilities of a GeForce 7050 IGP based motherboard. Depending on how the sDVO connection is used, motherboard manufacturers can equip motherboards with DVI, TV-out, component video out and/or HDMI outputs.

Although GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a based motherboards feature a GeForce 7-series IGP, there is still plenty of expansion options such as a single full-speed PCIe x16 slot. Other notable features of the GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a combination include dual-channel DDR2-533/667/800 support, PCIe x1 & PCI slots, high-definition audio, ten USB 2.0, four SATA 3.0Gbps ports with RAID and Gigabit Ethernet.

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GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a-based motherboard.

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DVI, VGA, HDMI and TV-outputs

[Anusha]

What on earth do they expect to gain by this?

I mean, if an old chipset performs well, then it's great. It shows how superior they were when their rivals were not doing well. But when a new chipset (same hardware, but new name - that's what matters the more to normal consumers) performs same as the old hardware, that doesn't make people happy. What I see would result in this new naming thing is that people are going to lose faith in nVidia. For example, what if they introduce a Geforce 8050 video card from a 7300GT GPU? Crap!!!

[chaminga_d]

Perhaps I am wrong... but I thought the 6100 and 405 were two separate chips? Now it seems the 7050 is a single chip... So while the tech is the same internally, because they integrated all that functionality into one chip shouldn't it have a new name anyway?

Edit: Whoops, my bad. The 6100/405 combo is a single chip affair. Ok, it is pretty silly to rename.

[lasanka]

hmmmmm

[Anusha]

Yes, it is a single chip solution. Ever since AMD removed the memory controller from the chipset, nVidia has been able to make single chip solution resulting with lower manufacturing costs. (but not all of them are single chip solutions)

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[zCexVe]

WTF!! what the hell with another name?Its good that they made somedrivers frm the manyears spending on renaming it............

[Anusha]

WTF!! what the hell with another name?Its good that they made somedrivers frm the manyears spending on renaming it............
Hehehe. I'm really losing faith in nVidia, you know

[yohanxk]

what........

[dinukaperera]

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