While AMD calls for its partners not to give up the support of formerly popular AGP 8x graphics interface, Nvidia sticks to completely different strategy. Now you can still find latest generation AGP graphics cards on ATI Radeon chips, while Nvidia fans with outdated platforms have to be happy with GeForce 7 series solutions only. Moreover, there will be no new AGP 8x graphics cards on Nvidia chips, according to the company officials.
Sapphire Company has recently started shipping Radeon HD 3850 graphics cards with AGP 8x interface. These graphics solutions have proven quite successful: they can really speed up the gaming performance of older platforms. And although there are only Windows XP drivers available these days, AMD promises to release Windows Vista drivers, too. So, AMD that has been focusing mostly on mainstream and essential segments lately strengthens its positions among the older platforms owners.
At the same time, we haven’t seen any Nvidia GeForce 8XXX based graphics cards designed for AGP 8x interface. It turned out that the problem lies with the latest AGP-PCI BR02 (HIS) bridge revision that cannot work with the new graphics chips. It was supposed before that Nvidia will still release a new A05 revision of their BR02 bridge that will be compatible with contemporary GPUs, thus giving their partners the opportunity to refresh the lineup for the AGP interface. However we learned now, that Nvidia gave up this idea.
So, we will see no new graphics cards from Nvidia with AGP 8x interface. Nvidia explained their decision by absence of sufficient demand for solutions like that.
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darn.. i was really counting on an AGP 8800... :-(
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Posted by: ford
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Date: 03/05/08 12:00:28 AM]
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Finally
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Posted by: 1234
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Date: 03/05/08 06:58:51 AM]
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Not surprising...When things get too difficult to solve, Nvidia will give up on it, leaving the end-user high and dry.
Other examples include their:
* SoundStorm (Audio Processing Unit)
* NVIDIA Firewall
* NVIDIA LinkBoost (overclocking buses)
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Posted by: ausse
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Date: 03/05/08 07:07:47 AM]
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Missinformation!
In Akihabara you can easily find 8800GT and 8800GTS on AGP8x, so...pls search better....
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Posted by: TAViX
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Date: 03/05/08 07:59:21 PM]
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I'd like to know how they managed to get the G80/G92 chips to work on AGP, because nVidia have no bridge chips that will do this.
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Posted by: Joebob
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Date: 09/01/08 05:39:45 AM]
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Really they see no demand? When the agp versions of the 3800 series sells just as well as the pci-e versions...
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Posted by: barnassey
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Date: 03/05/08 09:06:51 PM]
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I am curious as to where you saw that data?
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Posted by: jibbo
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Date: 03/06/08 01:40:50 PM]
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In my opinion the money wasted on AGP would be much better spent on a low-end to mid-range modern platform with PCI Express, since the AGP bus is tied to chipsets that are really really old and likely don't support much of anything new these days. AGP card prices these days are inflated because the remaining makers are trying to soak as much possible from a basically dead market.
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Posted by: anon
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Date: 03/06/08 06:19:03 AM]
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Out with the old and in with the new! I really loved my old IC7-G motherboard and I tried to hold onto the old AGP bus but it wasn't happening. Besides, initially AGP was just a jury rigged work around to get faster speeds because they didn't want to create a whole new bus... at least, that's the story I heard. So good riddance!
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Posted by: hedron
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Date: 03/07/08 12:09:36 PM]
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@ 'TAViX ' -
What are you talking about?
There is NO NViDIA 8xxx AGP card on the planet.
I challenge you to give just one link to an existing
manufacturer's product.
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Posted by: U_pillock
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Date: 03/08/08 07:26:29 AM]
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This is sad news for us AGP user… I was hopping to see 8 series or 9 series AGP from Nvidia. Well thank you ATI for not forgetting us. 3850 AGP is our answer. That’s if we can find one.
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Posted by: ACEDIA
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Date: 03/14/08 11:52:31 PM]
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nvidia are cockfags, they expect people to buy whole new components every 6 months as their support stops after that.
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Date: 04/07/08 10:52:48 AM]
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