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Am i hearing correctly that they are phasing out AGP cards & going to these new PCIe cards?
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Yes you heard right. However, most others heard this news about three years ago.
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Oh right its just seems strange that a guy just put me a new motherboard in & its got PCIe onboard but does,nt look anywhere near as good as an AGP onboard card.
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Well, there are some agp cards capable of even 50 GB/s and 12 Gpix/s fill rate;
and there are some PCI express card with only 8 Gb/s bandwidth, so probably it's the case.
PCI express is for top performance, the midrange are just good as Agp.
and there are some PCI express card with only 8 Gb/s bandwidth, so probably it's the case.
PCI express is for top performance, the midrange are just good as Agp.
Heh - truth be told, there is no discernable difference between the AGP8x socket and a new PCI-e 16x one.
Why?
Because AGP was not even close to limiting the bandwidth of the available cards and still isn't even when using a 1950Pro or a 7800GS+. AGP8x could also be used for two graphics cards, but I have never seen any motherboard manufacturer take advantage of that.
In theory, the PCI-e is far superior, offering much more bandwidth to the cards for them to churn out data/have it fed to them. The other 'small' difference is ATI/Nvidia's marketing strategy: as they're touting PCI-e as the future (as it rightly is), very few manufacturing partners are offering high-end AGP solutions. Meaning that shops charge massive premiums for high-end AGP cards in comparison to the same hardware on a PCI-e socket.
Why?
Because AGP was not even close to limiting the bandwidth of the available cards and still isn't even when using a 1950Pro or a 7800GS+. AGP8x could also be used for two graphics cards, but I have never seen any motherboard manufacturer take advantage of that.
In theory, the PCI-e is far superior, offering much more bandwidth to the cards for them to churn out data/have it fed to them. The other 'small' difference is ATI/Nvidia's marketing strategy: as they're touting PCI-e as the future (as it rightly is), very few manufacturing partners are offering high-end AGP solutions. Meaning that shops charge massive premiums for high-end AGP cards in comparison to the same hardware on a PCI-e socket.
