Nvidia goes 8x
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 25, 2002 at 9:18:52 PM
Nvidia has announced they will go to AGP 8x with all their cards.
This above statement is highly invalid, there will be hardly any benefits to AGP 8x currently as the graphics cards for 8x do most of the graphics work by itself, not needed to feed much data to the cpu subsyst
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Todays fast-paced fly-through applications and games will see significant improvements in overall performance due to the doubled AGP 8X speed. By combining the performance and scalability of AGP8X GPU and a high performance 128MB DDR frame buffer; the GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8X GPU delivers more than two times the graphics performance of competitive products.
This above statement is highly invalid, there will be hardly any benefits to AGP 8x currently as the graphics cards for 8x do most of the graphics work by itself, not needed to feed much data to the cpu subsyst