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AGP stands for "Accelerated Graphics Port". AGP is the
port on motherboards that graphics cards use. AGP was first designed
for Pentium II based motherboards, and can produce 4 times higher
than the PCI bus. The main reasons for this is because AGP uses,
- pipelining
- sideband addressing
- more data transfers per clock
Nother plus point for AGP is it enables graphics cards to execute
texture maps directly from system memory. Whereas with other ports
such as PCI is forced it to pre-load the texture data to the graphics
card's local memory.
Recently Added News
28//04/2005 - Currently AGP is started to be seen as an ageing
standard, and that it will be replaced by the currently slower but
newer technology of PCI Express.
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