The Test AGP vs. PCI Express Graphics Cards

Publish date: 2024-05-18

The Test - AGP vs. PCI Express Graphics Cards

The coming pages offer two performance comparisons; first, a comparison of NVIDIA's AGP 8X and PCI Express x16 solutions as well as a comparison of ATI's AGP 8X and PCI Express x16 solutions. We ran the PCI Express x16 solutions on Intel's 925X board and the AGP 8X solutions on Intel's 875P board. Since the performance between the two is basically negligible, thanks to high latency DDR2 memory, we have ourselves a pretty decent AGP vs. PCI Express performance comparison. We also kept GPU clock and memory clock speeds identical across both platforms, so that we truly have a useful performance comparison.

We would have rather had a solution with both AGP and PCI Express interfaces, but it seems that the only chipset which will offer native AGP and PCI Express interfaces is from VIA and it won't be ready until next month at the earliest.

The other comparison that we'll make in the coming pages is between the Pentium 4 3.4EE and our usual gaming platform, the Athlon 64 3400+, just to have a reference point to compare to our older gaming benchmarks.

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