| AGP A
dedicated graphics bus slot on PC motherboards. Designed by Intel, AGP
operates at 66 MHz and transfers data at a rate up to 528 MB/sec. By
comparison, the PCI slot that most graphics cards currently use runs at 33
MHz and has a maximum transfer rate of 132 MB/sec.
AGP's greater bandwidth will allow
game and 3D application developers to store and retrieve larger, more
realistic textures in system memory rather than video memory, without
incurring a dramatic performance hit. |