The term
V-Link indicates VIA's
northbridge/
southbridge interconnect bus.
Socket 3 Socket 5 and Socket 7 All chipsets listed support a maximum cache memory size of 2 MB and are PCI 2.1 compliant • The only difference between the Apollo Master and the Apollo Master Plus is that the Plus does not support pipelined burst cache memory. • The Apollo VP and Apollo VP2 chipsets were initially referenced by VIA as Apollo VP-1 and Apollo VP-2 respectively, later renamed to Apollo VP and Apollo VP2 when the "/97" upgrades became available. • The Apollo VPX chipset is a low-cost solution that replaced the Apollo VP but with features similar to the VP2. •
AMD licensed the VIA Apollo VP2/97 core logic architecture for its AMD 640 chipset.
Socket 8, Slot 1 and Socket 370 •
ProSavage PM133 - graphics core from
S3, derived from a combination of the 3D component of
Savage4 and 2D from
Savage 2000. •
PLE133 and
PLE133T - graphics core from
Trident, derived from
Blade3D. •
CLE266 (Castle Rock) - graphics core from
S3, derived from
S3 Savage series under the brand name
UniChrome. •
Asus advertised some boards as Apollo Pro 133Z. 133Z appears to be a late revision of or step up from 133A, but it is not listed on the VIA site.
Slot A and Socket A • KT266 contains a hardware bug which causes system instability when using the AGP slot at the specified max capacity of 4×. •
ProSavage KM133, KM133A, KM266, KM400, KM400A - Similar to the above, but with integrated graphics. After KM133, DDR is supported. The KM133 uses an IGP consisting of the S3 Savage4 3D core and Savage 2000 2D functionality. KM266's ProSavage8 IGP is similar but has an additional 3D pipeline. The KM400 chipset and its "A" variant use the VIA
UniChrome IGP. KM400A supports FSB 400 unlike the KT400A • Later revisions of the KT333 (sometimes called KT333CF) are rebadged KT400 chips with AGP 8x disabled. On motherboards with this chipset AGP 2x cards which require 3.3V are not supported, V-Link works at 533 MB/s and there is official support for 333 MHz FSB. • KT133E is a cut-down/cost-reduced version of the KT133A without official support for 133 MHz FSB. It was develeoped to replace the original KT133 when it went out of production.
Socket 423, 478 and LGA 775 • Being a reduced version of PM880, PM800 is not as closely related to PT800 as P4M890 to PT890. Because of its high cost, It is soon obsoleted in favor of P4M800 and then P4M800 Pro, both of which have a lower rated V-Link and feature no special memory technology such as FastStream64 or StepUp that is common in the other listed 8xx chipsets. •
VIA PT890, P4M890, PT900, P4M900 – VIA's
PCIe-only chipsets. The P4M chipsets have onboard graphics VIA UniChrome Pro. • VIA Chipsets P4 Series for Intel CPU Comparison Chart
Socket 754, 939, 940, AM2 •
VIA K8M890, K8T890, K8T900 – VIA's
PCIe-only chipsets. • The K8M800 chipsets has the onboard graphics VIA UniChrome Pro; the K8M890 has the Chrome9. • The Athlon 64 chipsets do not have memory controllers, because memory controller is integrated into the CPU. Supported memory types depend on the CPU and socket used. • VIA Chipsets K8 Series for AMD CPU Comparison Chart • The K8M890 was also used on boards with Socket 754, like the ASUS K8V-VM Ultra
Chipsets supporting both VIA and Intel processors •
VIA VX700 - Supports VIA C7-M or C7-ULV 533/400 MHz FSB • DDR2 533/400/333 or DDR400/333 • Utilizes the VIA UniChrome Pro II Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) •
VIA VN800 – Supports
VIA C7-M / Intel
Pentium M / Celeron M, and
Yonah (Core Solo and Core Duo) Processors • VIA UniChrome Pro Integrated Graphics Processor (200 MHz core clock) • DirectX 7 • Support product: (VIA
EPIA -[https://www.viatech.com/en/support/eol/vb6002-eol/ VB6002G Mini-ITX Board) • * - Cited in marketing literature as supporting up to 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM; only supported up to 1 GB DDR2 max actual per memory-slot. Motherboards with 1-slot support 1 GB-max; motherboards with 2-slots support 2 GB-max, etc. •
VIA VN896 (Mobile) and
VIA CN896 (Desktop). • VIA VN896(Mobile) can support Intel Pentium M / Celeron M, Core Solo / Core Duo, and Core2 Duo Processors • Support product: (BenQ Joybook R42) •
VIA VX800 • First VIA mobile chipset to support DirectX 9.0 (Pixel Shader 2.0) • VIA Chrome9 HC3 Integrated Graphics Processor (250 MHz engine clock, up to 256 MB frame buffer) • Built-in VIA Vinyl HD Audio controller supporting up to eight high-definition channels with a 192 kHz sampling rate and 32-bit sample depth • Supports 400/800 MHz FSB • Supports up to 4 GB of RAM with two 64-bit DDR2-667 DIMMs • Single-chip solution (no southbridge or
V-Link required) • Designed towards being used with the
VIA Isaiah 64-bit processor. • Maximum power consumption (TDP max) of 5 watts. •
VIA VX800U • Similar to the VIA VX800 • VIA Chrome9 HC3 integrated graphics (166 MHz engine clock, up to 256 MB frame buffer) • Supports a 400 MT/s FSB • Supports up to 4GBs of RAM with two 64-bit DDR2-400 DIMMs • Does not support PCIe or SATA due to their power requirements • Maximum power consumption of 3.5 watts • Intended for very low-power devices •
VIA VX855 • Full hardware acceleration of
H.264,
MPEG-2 and
WMV9 • Single-chip solution (no southbridge or
V-Link required) • Maximum power consumption of 2.3 watts •
VIA VN1000 •
DirectX 10.1 • 32
stream processors and 4 sampling units, supports
Shader Model 4,
OpenGL 3.0 and
OpenCL 1.0 for
GPGPU applications. • Acceleration of
Blu-ray, MPEG-2,
WMV-HD,
VC-1 and H.264
Chipsets supporting VIA processors •
VIA VX900 • Similar to VX855, but more expansion options •
VIA VX11/H • First VIA chipset built on the 40 nm CMOS process • Maximum power consumption of 5.8 watts • DDR3-1333 memory with maximum memory capacity of 16 GB • Integrated ChromotionTM 5.0 DX11 2D/3D graphics & video processor •
DirectX 11,
OpenGL 3.2. • Acceleration of
Blu-ray, MPEG-2,
WMV-HD,
VC-1 and H.264 • A card reader interface with support for MMC, MS Pro HG, and SDHC/SDXC == Southbridge chips ==