NVIDIA nForce Professional Technology Overview

For both servers and workstations, NVIDIA is offering two solutions for the market. Today, NVIDIA is announcing the nForce Professional 2200 and nForce Professional 2050 chipsets (the latter being an I/O companion chip). Designed specifically for the AMD Opteron platform, both chips are scalable PCI Express MCPs. Since they are based on a single-chip architecture, they are cost effective solutions for the business market. As mentioned earlier, they support NVIDIA’s Scalable Link Interface (SLI), as well as the NVIDIA Quadro Multi-GPU. It’s also somewhat future-proof as well, supporting the new AMD dual core processors without having to redesign the motherboard or PC once they are released later this year.

…Compared to what was previously offered for the professional market in terms of the Opteron workstation and server side of things, the nForce Professional is a vast improvement. While the performance is in question until we see some professional level benchmark numbers, feature-wise NVIDIA is putting a lot on the table.

At this time, the new MCPs are strictly AMD Opteron based as it was only recently that NVIDIA announced their partnership with Intel. While nForce desktop chipsets for the Pentium 4 are coming soon ETA Q1 2005), we suspect the workstation parts will follow sometime after.

nForce Professional Technology Overview
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