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Ever since NVIDIA has introduced its 7800 GTX graphics adapter, one of the many questions that users have been asking is if NVID […]
Ever since NVIDIA has introduced its 7800 GTX graphics adapter, one of the many questions that users have been asking is if NVIDIA would ever launch an AGP version of the aforementioned card. Well, before we get into the actual information, we covered a report earlier this year that had information from one of the industry insiders who said that NVIDIA and ATI would probably not offer AGP versions of their upcoming product line. In the same report, the insider commented that AGP standard might actually fade away in 2005. Of course, the ones in retail channels would continue to be on retail shelves throughout the year, but the possibility of upcoming cards to support both AGP and PCIe were slim. However, that might change with the information we received recently.
An insider today confirmed that NVIDIA has no plans to offer an AGP version of the 7800 GTX currently, but it all depends on the demand. The reason is not because the 7800 GTX couldn’t be ported over to the AGP standard architecturally, but NVIDIA just doesn’t see the demand anymore. But if users are persuading enough, NVIDIA and its board partners would have no problems offering an AGP counterpart to the PCIe version.
This would also indicate that ATI’s upcoming R520 core would probably be PCIe exclusive as well, and it would most likely not offer an AGP version unless there’s sufficient demand.
Doesn't see the DEMAND? heh. I'd like to see the % of machines with PCI-E vs AGP machines. Considering that AGP has been out since 1999? I think it's pretty fair to say that AGP outnumbers PCI-E by a substantial amount and that there is still quite a bit of performance to be wrung out of AGP.
This would be the perfect opportunity for some enterprising company to come out with an AGP card......