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
* Not applicable to the AMD M690V