• Memory bandwidth is high due to the IGP's twin bank memory controller for SDR as well as DDR SDRAM, with a 128-bit wide data path.
• Memory latency is reduced due to the crossbar configuration of the two separate 64-bit wide memory controllers as well as due to the integrated DASP (Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Pre-Processor), which is something like a intelligent small third-level cache for the processor.
• The integrated GeForce2MX-like graphics controller is internally connected to the chipset core with a path that has a bandwidth of 1.5 GB/s, equal to 6xAGP. External graphics cards can take advantage of 4xAGP.
• The connection to the south bridge is realized with AMD's HyperTransport interface, which offers a much higher bandwidth than the traditionally used PCI bus as well as the lately used 'hub architecture' (Intel) or 'V-Link' (VIA).

NVIDIA's nForce IGP connects to AMD Athlon processors, making nForce an Athlon chipset. For the time being, nForce does NOT support any Intel processors.
The integrated audio processor seems to be by far the most sophisticated ever deployed in a motherboard. Capable of realtime Dolby Digital encoding – Dolby certified AC-3 stream encoding. The audio DSP can itself reach up to a staggering four billion operations per second, and is the same found in the soon to be released Microsoft Xbox. Through two PC2100 DDR channels, the Integrated Graphics Processor spanks previous core logic bandwidth records by serving up 4.2GB/s. nForce will be available in two models, both of which will use DDR SDRAM and only support AMD’s Athlon and Duron lines of microprocessors. The "low end" version is the nForce 220 with a 2.1GB/s single channel DDR SDRAM interface. The performance model, nForce 420 differs from the 220 primarily with its groundbreaking 128-bit dual channel DDR SDRAM interface, which previously we only saw used in RAMBUS boards. The nForce 420 supports up to 1.5GB of PC2100 DDR SDRAM. The first 1GB of this maximum configuration would be accessed through a 128-bit interface with the remaining 0.5GB available through a 64-bit interface. Under these mixed mode conditions, the graphics frame buffer memory would be accessed in 128-bit mode. One of most innovative features of nForce is the Unified driver. One driver is all that will be required for the entire board, to include all integrated components!

If this board performs as well in real life as it looks on paper, there are going to be some big names in the PC industry in a major hurt.