Integrated video: What would be the limit for DDRx2 or RAMBUS systems?

[MadRat]

The nForce is offering a huge bandwidth to run their integrated video to at least Geforce-MX level performance. But what kind of performance should we expect out of systems built on dual-channel DDR or even RAMBUS for that matter? If dual-channel DDR is needed for nForce then think what a quad-channel RAMBUS system should be able to offer.

 

[MadRat]

Sheesh, I was hoping someone would take a stab at it.

PC1066 or better RAMBUS will make it pointless to use separate video memory, would it not?

 

[jkresh]

The dual channel ddr could run a geforce 3, and their will be a revision of the nforce with a geforce 3 in the future, the reason they are only using the mx is that if they released the nforce with geforce 3 now it would essentially be an Xbox (and that would not make Microsoft happy) plus they don?t want to be competing with themselves that directly, so in 6 months you will see one with the geforce 3, probably using the same memory that this one uses (maybe pc2700 or pc3300 but unlikely).