08-03-2004, 09:01 AM
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PCX VS AGP 8X Performance test?
are there any sites that have run a side by side comparison of a geforce 6800gt using PCX and AGP 8x interfaces?
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08-03-2004, 09:03 AM
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There will be less than 2% performance difference if any, take my word on it.
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08-03-2004, 11:01 AM
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shibuya girl
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Like cant said, not much difference. When newer generation cards come out that take advantage of the technology, that's when you'll start seeing it.
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08-03-2004, 02:46 PM
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So can we expect AGP 16X to come out anytime soon. It seems like the video card should get it's own dedicated port.
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08-03-2004, 03:02 PM
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08-03-2004, 04:50 PM
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the AGP bus may have peaked already at its current speed limit, so to speak. at 8x, the ceiling could probably still be raised a bit higher, but the real-world speed gain may actually be negligible. until of course some radical engineering breakthrough could disprove that.
so enter PCI express, which potentially offers far more bandwidth and speed in the succeeding generations. at the current inception it is already at the same level as 8x AGP, so there is a promise in it. whether it gets fulfilled remains to be seen. too early to tell. but think of it as when the AGP bus was created, so as to break out of the PCI bus speed limitations. The current AGP speeds just seem outdated now (at 66MHz) compared to the monster speeds that DDR memory and CPU bus operates on. In effect AGP has now become a bottleneck. PCI Express is supposed to alleviate that. think of it also in terms of Serial ATA compared to Parallel ATA drives. supposedly SATA drives offer 150MB/s transfer rate compared to the 100MB/s and 133MB/s for regular IDE drives. in real world performance, there is hardly any noticeable performance increase at all, if any. but its new technology, and already its as fast as the fastes P-ATA drives out. its bound to get faster.
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08-03-2004, 05:20 PM
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It may seem outdated, but there is a reason why PCI E and AGP perform so close together - AGP was never maxed out in terms of performance, never fully used. Part of that was due to the increase on videocard memory. PCI E isn't going to offer any real benefits for a little while yet.
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