AGP and PCi-E

PCI-E: Newer, faster, Basically every new card made today is produced in PCI-E

AGP: Older, Slower, fewer cards compatible with AGP.
 
Most cards manufactured these days are PCI-E, so if you have an AGP slot motherboard, then it would be pretty hard for you to find a graphics card, especially a high performance one.
 
There are some AGP cards that are still good, like my X850 Pro, It's a good card, still, compared to today's standards.
 
yes there are good AGP cards, but they stopped making new ones... there will be no direct-x ten AGP card, and its for good reasons too
 
They are now reporting that NVIDIA has an AGP version of the G84 GPU that will be DirectX 10 compliant. This means that users of old AGP systems will be able to run DirectX 10 applications and Vista.

NVIDIA'S GEFORCE 7600 GS, its AGP card, will get a new follower, cleverly codenamed G84 AGP.

This card will be a Direct X 10 chip aimed at AGP upgrade market, as you have not been able to buy new AGP systems for a while now. It is an interesting choice as but shows the value of this legacy market. The card is scheduled for April and this means that AGP upgrade market will get a DirectX 10 after all.

"Nvidia's GeForce 7600 GS, its AGP card, will get a new follower, cleverly codenamed G84 AGP. This card will be a Direct X 10 chip aimed at AGP upgrade market, as you have not been able to buy new AGP systems for a while now. It is an interesting choice as but shows the value of this legacy market. The card is scheduled for April and this means that AGP upgrade market will get a DirectX 10 after all.The AGP version is possible due to the fact that G84 chips are pin-to-pin compatible with Geforce 6600 and 7600, so there were no modifications required in order that AGP market gets its DirectX 10 card."

It looks like the ATI RV610 will bring DirectX 10 to AGP systems:
We guess that ATI found the way to make it work via RIALTO bridge chip. ATI plans to use the bridge chip on a new PCB

So for those users that want a AGP perfromance part this company will offer DirectX 10 boards based on RV610 and RV630. In fact, there will even be an overclocked version of the RV630XT, which could even end up cooled by a combined heat-pipe peltier cooler.


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Yeah that pretty wild, I thought the way Nvidia and ATI jumped on the PCIe bandwagon there were out to kill AGP, guess not!
 
Well I think there are still more AGP systems out there than PCI-E, that is why Nividia is not going to ditch that share of the market.
 
Obviously, if you are getting a new computer you will opt for a PCI-E system, you would have to be either very dumb or short on cash to buy an AGP system.
 
If you get an AGP card, then you have pretty much sealed your upgrading path, because AGP is getting phased out gradually.
 
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