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AMD plans to target the chipset towards consumer and commercial desktop platforms, with minor differences for each respective segment. The RS780 sports a new graphics core with AMD’s Universal Video Decoder, or UVD. The new chipset supports DisplayPort, DVI and HDMI digital video output interfaces. AMD also integrates an audio controller for simultaneous audio and video output over HDMI. The chipset also integrates HDCP support. Additionally, the chipset supports TV-out, VGA and LVDS outputs.

New to the RS780 platform is the SB700 south bridge. The SB700 does away with all PCIe lanes and only supports PCI, because all PCIe functionality has moved to the north bridge. AMD increases USB support to 12 USB 2.0 ports plus an additional 2 USB 1.1 ports. The new south bridge supports up to six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports with RAID 0, 1 and 10 support. IDE remains a supported feature of the SB700.

Izvor: DailyTech