DigiTimes sources at motherboard makers seem to agree on one thing, among the chipsets that will go head to head in the first quarter of this year (AMD's RS780 and Nvidia's MCP 78), it is AMD that holds between a 15 and a 20% performance advantage in 3DMark 05 and 06 tests.

Nvidia has an ace up it's sleeve, the MCP 78U, which should tilt the performance balance in their favor, but due to the higher core frequencies of the graphics engine, the cooling measures that would be needed are just too expensive.

To make things worse, it's possible that the Nvidia product gets delayed until February, while AMD/ATI did their homework, allowing motherboard manufacturers to keep the January 23 date.

Link: DigiTimes.

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