386_junkie wrote:
What sort of cards are out there for AGP PRO?
Video cards that need more electric power than a regular AGP can supply and whose designers don't like the idea of getting power from a molex plug.
386_junkie wrote:
Also, will they make any difference to gameplay... are there any games that actually would utilise such a card?
The short answer is no. The difference between AGP and AGP pro is merely electrical. A card, for example, FireGL X1, can be made into AGP version with molex or AGP pro version, and software sees them as the same card.
In reality almost all AGP pro cards are made for workstations. Some of them, for example, pre-ATi FireGLs, only support OpenGL. Some of them, for example, Wildcats made by 3dlabs can support both D3D and OpenGL. ATi made some FireGLs in AGP pro with their R300 chips, so their performance should be more or less on the same level as R300. AGP pro also appears on PowerMac G5 and there are several cards made in that form factor but they will not boot on PC motherboards.