Last days of AGP Bus.

NVIDIA Will Not Support Outdated Bus Standard
by Ilya Gavrichenkov 03/04/2008 - reposted here on 3/7/08

While AMD calls for its partners not to give up the support of formerly popular AGP 8x graphics interface, Nvidia sticks to completely different strategy. Now you can still find latest generation AGP graphics cards on ATI Radeon chips, while Nvidia fans with outdated platforms have to be happy with GeForce 7 series solutions only. Moreover, there will be no new AGP 8x graphics cards on Nvidia chips, according to the company officials. Sapphire Company has recently started shipping Radeon HD 3850 graphics cards with AGP 8x interface. These graphics solutions have proven quite successful: they can really speed up the gaming performance of older platforms. And although there are only Windows XP drivers available these days, AMD promises to release Windows Vista drivers, too. So, AMD that has been focusing mostly on mainstream and essential segments lately strengthens its positions among the older platforms owners.

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