[simpits-tech] Monitor question

[Ido Dekkers]

Actually if you look at this -
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20020718/radeon9700-04.html you will
see that there is no difference for 3D also in AGP Vs PCI - there memory
throughput of the card is 19.4GB per second and what the AGP bus gives you
is 2GB per second , so it will never improve the cards performance unless
you use huge textures which doesn't happen in todays games and when it does
we'll get the 256MB of the 9700 or the new nVidia card.

The problem is that i didn't see any high end graphics cards for PCI yet -
the best I've seen is the GeForce 2 MX, if there was a radeon 9700 for PCI
then there wouldn't be much difference from the AGP one.

Ido


                                                                           
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Hi,

even AGP4X?? people sometimes mix AGP with AGP2X, 4X, etc.

i _think_ i understand what you are saying, but hope our correspondence is
not confusing the less graphically sophisticated out there.

my comments were only meant to help those less sophisticated folks who
might try to plug multiple graphics cards into computers expecting serious
performance, only to end up with beaucoup problems.

readers understand: Ido is talking about 2D performance.

thanks,

 - adm -

At 09:02 AM 12/10/02 +0200, you wrote:



      I know all that but still the data throughput on the AGP bus is not
      even
      remotely near what the new cards need so acceleration wise, it
      doesn't
      matter if you put an AGP or PCI because the only memory that matters
      is the
      on board ( card ) memory.
      In the Old cards that didn't need that much memory throughput the AGP
      helped a bit.

      and as long as you have the latest drivers you can even use different
      card
      types ( talking about 2D now) , i used an nVidia mx2 and an old 4MB
      ATI
      with no problem at all.

      Ido



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