agp 4x8xPCI-e

[Valkerie]

was there ever a difference in speeds with AGP4x vs AGP8x?

ofcourse we'll see speed increases from AGP8x to PCI-e in the near future, such as when Unreal Engine 3.0 comes out and when Windows drivers and the software for PCI-e will develop eventually, but I'm just curious if AGP8x from AGP4x made any difference whatsoever and if it wasn't just a scam like the MX4000 trying to benefit from an AGP8x slot because the packaging said it was AGP8x? I doubt there was much difference for Geforce MX class cards, but maybe say, for a mobo with AGP4x using a Radeon 9700 with a mobo using AGP8x using a 9700?

anyone know about this?

 

[CP5670]

I get some 40 odd 3dmarks and about a 1% increase in games going from 4X to 8X on a 6800 GT. (was having stability problems at one point and tried going down to 4X)

So not really.

 

[Valkerie]

bump

 

[IceMole]

No not really, but PCI-E is the future, so people have to deal with it or fall behind.

Also see:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

 

[mthomas988]

There has never been much of a difference...the agp bus has never really been a bottleneck...

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Valkerie
was there ever a difference in speeds with AGP4x vs AGP8x?

ofcourse we'll see speed increases from AGP8x to PCI-e in the near future, such as when Unreal Engine 3.0 comes out and when Windows drivers and the software for PCI-e will develop eventually, but I'm just curious if AGP8x from AGP4x made any difference whatsoever and if it wasn't just a scam like the MX4000 trying to benefit from an AGP8x slot because the packaging said it was AGP8x? I doubt there was much difference for Geforce MX class cards, but maybe say, for a mobo with AGP4x using a Radeon 9700 with a mobo using AGP8x using a 9700?

anyone know about this?

Unreal and new drivers will do nothing to make PCI-E faster than AGP.

-Kevin