Nvidia: IGP delay for the Core 2

The GeForce 7xx0 - nForce 6x0i aka MCP73 launched at the end of September didn’t inspire much excitement, notably due to the pure and simple absence of PureVideo. Moreover, Nvidia seems to be having problems perfecting its successor, the MCP79/7A.

According to OCWorkbench, all the bugs found in stepping A1 were not satisfactorily remedied in the B1 revision and motherboard manufacturers prefer to wait for the B2. If all goes well, this mGPU destined to second Intel and VIA processors will offer support of DirectX 10, Hybrid SLI, PureVideo HD and PCI-Express 2.0.

According to recent drivers which were leaked this week, the integrated graphic core will be called the GeForce 9400, and curiously the G98, an entirely different GPU destined to very low level graphic cards, will become the GeForce 9300 or even the GeForce 8400 in some cases.