Last days of AGP Bus

zippyjuan · 03-05-2008, 02:57 PM

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...f_AGP_Bus.html
I thought they quit making AGP video cards already.

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Last days of AGP Bus.
NVIDIA Will Not Support Outdated Bus Standard

Category: Video

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 03/04/2008 | 04:15 PM ]

While AMD calls for its partners not to give up the support of formerly popular AGP 8x graphics interface, Nvidia sticks to completely different strategy. Now you can still find latest generation AGP graphics cards on ATI Radeon chips, while Nvidia fans with outdated platforms have to be happy with GeForce 7 series solutions only. Moreover, there will be no new AGP 8x graphics cards on Nvidia chips, according to the company officials.

Sapphire Company has recently started shipping Radeon HD 3850 graphics cards with AGP 8x interface. These graphics solutions have proven quite successful: they can really speed up the gaming performance of older platforms. And although there are only Windows XP drivers available these days, AMD promises to release Windows Vista drivers, too. So, AMD that has been focusing mostly on mainstream and essential segments lately strengthens its positions among the older platforms owners.

At the same time, we haven’t seen any Nvidia GeForce 8XXX based graphics cards designed for AGP 8x interface. It turned out that the problem lies with the latest AGP-PCI BR02 (HIS) bridge revision that cannot work with the new graphics chips. It was supposed before that Nvidia will still release a new A05 revision of their BR02 bridge that will be compatible with contemporary GPUs, thus giving their partners the opportunity to refresh the lineup for the AGP interface. However we learned now, that Nvidia gave up this idea.

So, we will see no new graphics cards from Nvidia with AGP 8x interface. Nvidia explained their decision by absence of sufficient demand for solutions like that.

DarkFury · 03-05-2008, 03:11 PM

Well... I guess it depends on what games these folks are playing.

If they are trying to play the latest/greatest games (Crysis, UT3, Bioshock, etc...) then those older AGP systems might be hurtin' in trying to keep up.

Most of the hardcore gamers have already moved on... however those older AGP systems are perfectly fine for playing older games that were out over a year or 2 ago.

I can see why Nvidia has stopped their AGP production... They'd rather sell $400 cards to people with PCI express whereas the likelihood that someone with a 2+ year old AGP based machine probably won't spend more than $150 or so for an updated video card at this point.

Yeah, the jump from AGP to PCI Express hurts quite a bit... especially considering that you have to buy a new mobo, CPU, and ram to go along with your new video card.

03-05-2008, 03:11 PM	#2
DarkFury Secretary of the Navy Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Chillin' N Da 'Hood Posts: 34,997	Well... I guess it depends on what games these folks are playing. If they are trying to play the latest/greatest games (Crysis, UT3, Bioshock, etc...) then those older AGP systems might be hurtin' in trying to keep up. Most of the hardcore gamers have already moved on... however those older AGP systems are perfectly fine for playing older games that were out over a year or 2 ago. I can see why Nvidia has stopped their AGP production... They'd rather sell $400 cards to people with PCI express whereas the likelihood that someone with a 2+ year old AGP based machine probably won't spend more than $150 or so for an updated video card at this point. Yeah, the jump from AGP to PCI Express hurts quite a bit... especially considering that you have to buy a new mobo, CPU, and ram to go along with your new video card. __________________ DarkFury's Pimptopia - Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Game! Home of the Original OG Pimp (accept NO imitations)

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