‘New AMD chipset will be more complete than Intel’s chipsets’

Details of the new AMD chipset for the next generation of processors have been leaked. The ‘Hudson D3 chipset’, which will be used in the new motherboards, surpasses Intel’s chipsets on almost all fronts, according to AMD.

The desktop variant of AMD’s Fusion line is formed by the Sabine and Lynx platforms. The chipsets to be combined with the APUs code-named Llano were given the name Hudson. Its top model, the Hudson D3 chipset, was compared by AMD with Intel’s high-end chipset for Sandy Bridge motherboards. This is evident from a presentation for partners that came into the hands of website Donanim Haber.

The comparison would show that AMD’s Hudson D3 chipset surpasses the Sandy Bridge chipset, known as Cougar Point, on many fronts. For example, the Hudson D3 is equipped with six SATA-600 ports compared to only two at Intel and the chipset has four USB 3.0 ports as standard. Intel’s chipset does not offer that support, so third-party controller chips are necessary for USB 3.0 support. The video outputs are also more flexible and the chipset still has legacy PCI support.

However, the Hudson D3 chipset also lacks a number of features that Intel’s chipset does offer. For example, AMD does not provide an onboard gigabit network controller and the supported raid modes are more limited; AMD does not support raid 5. The exact specifications should be announced as soon as AMD introduces the Llano apus. That should happen in the second quarter of this year, along with the Sabine and Lynx platforms.