NVIDIA introduces the GeForce 7050 PV

Friday 11th May 2007, 03:07:00 PM, written by Arun

At the same time as their announcement of the GeForce 8M family, NVIDIA also quietly released the GeForce 7050 PV + nForce 630a combo, which is a single-chip MCP/Motherboard GPU. It's an incremental update to MCP61, so there's not much new except HDMI and HDCP content protection, but NVIDIA claims that it delivers 20% higher video quality than AMD and Intel's competing solutions, presumably in the HQV benchmark.

NVIDIA is also introducing the GeForce 7025 at the same time, which supports HDCP (and is thus presumably also based on the MCP68), but doesn't have any HDMI port, or even PureVideo support although NVIDIA claims it supports SD Video anyway, so it's not very clear what is actually disabled. Image quality enhancements, perhaps? The 7025 also 'only' sports 10 USB ports, while the 7050 has 12.

We're not sure what process the chip is manufactured on. The MCP61 was on 90nm, so this one is most likely either 90nm or 80nm-based. The former seems more likely, however, because that'd make it cheaper and more of a replacement to their previous chipsets, rather than a complementary product. Either way, the official specifications are available here, and NVIDIA claims the 7050 and 7025 will be available for ~$75 and ~$50 USD respectively, athough initial prices seem to be higher than that.

nvidia ± mcp68, mcp61, hdmi, hdcp

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