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When was first mobo with integrated 3D graphics launched in PC market?

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Akaz1976

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As far as i know things went like this:

---PCs had 2D solutions (usually discrete cards, CGA, XGA, VGA, SVGA etc)
---Voodoo came out: now 2D cards existed side by side with 3D cards.
---Riva/Rage came out: 3D cards absorbed 2D function. Pure 2D solutions extinct.
---Integrated 2D/3D solutions came out

Now market has both integrated and discrete 2D/3D solutions. But i am not sure if i have gotten it right. also i dont know the dates/names of new types of product launched.

Thanx for any help

Akaz
 
The VIA MVP4 chipset was the first from what I can find and remember. However Trident seems to have started making integrated chipsets for laptops before that, or very close to the same time.

The MVP4 by the way used the Trident Blade3D core.
 
Depends on what your definition of "3D graphics" is...

The ability to display 3D graphics is only a matter of having enough RAM for video. Having the "horsepower" to actually say "this chipset can display 3D graphics with some umph!" is another thing.

My 7MHz amiga had built in graphics with up to 2 mb video memory and could display 3D graphics (at low resolutions of course)??

Is this for some research or something you're doing? No never specified why you need to know this.
 
There were several motherboard makers who would throw on an ATI Rage Pro chip for video. While it wasn't amazing, it WAS 3D hardware, integrated. Not into the CHIPSET like nForce/ProSavage/SiS/i810.... but definately integrated into the motherboard.
 
A 3D chipset on the motherboard isn't "integrated" in the way he's talking about. It's essentially the same as having an expansion card.

WhiteDog: what you're referring to is software 3D rendering; the CPU is doing the actual work there, not the video card. We're talking about hardware accelerated 3D. It's not an issue of whether a chipset has "horsepower" to display 3D; if it doesn't have the circuitry to do the 3D work itself, it doesn't get done by the video chipset, it gets done by the CPU and then the 2D chipset does the work of displaying it as a 2D image (the CPU sends the image to the video card as 2D data, rather than as the data needed to construct a 3D image as it does with a hardware accelerator).
 
The SiS 530 was quite an early integrated solution for the Socket-7 mobos (with 3D hardware acceleration)... SiS has always been playing around with those integrated chipsets... hence their name 🙂
 


<< A 3D chipset on the motherboard isn't "integrated" in the way he's talking about. It's essentially the same as having an expansion card.

WhiteDog: what you're referring to is software 3D rendering; the CPU is doing the actual work there, not the video card. We're talking about hardware accelerated 3D. It's not an issue of whether a chipset has "horsepower" to display 3D; if it doesn't have the circuitry to do the 3D work itself, it doesn't get done by the video chipset, it gets done by the CPU and then the 2D chipset does the work of displaying it as a 2D image (the CPU sends the image to the video card as 2D data, rather than as the data needed to construct a 3D image as it does with a hardware accelerator). >>



Well, he did ask about the first mobo with integrated 3D graphics, not the first chipset. Technically, if it's onboards, it's integrated.
 
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