I don't get it

[McArra]

New PCI-X cards are to appear when we can't even see a performance boost when switching from AGP4x to AGP8x. Is it really that needed or is just a commercial interest?

 

[Corporate Thug]

i guess we wont really know until benchies

 

[TourGuide]

I read somewhere that nV expects a ~10% increase in performance due to greater bandwidth on the better bus.

We'll see.

 

[FullRoast]

I think that some of it is that the PC industry is going to PCI-X. The video companies got pulled in with it.

 

[VIAN]

They could make agp 32X and nothing would happen. Why? There is no game that actually uses it. That is why you don't see an advantage over 4X with 8X. If you had a game that needed 8X, the card with 4X would probably be too crapy to compete. Just think that if you have 8X you will be able to experience more, as soon as games take hold of it.

 

[Pete]

Apparently the AGP bus is used for more than just extra textures--it's constantly streaming vertex data. And OpenGL Guy at B3D says the S2000 used AGP extensivly because they made very efficient use of it. So AGP32x should indeed show great benefit to cards in high-stress games, and PCI-X should also show an improvement.

 

[Maskirovka]

it's all progress...faster is faster...even if it's 1%

as long as the cost isn't that much more...these slightly faster things just become standard until something better comes along
there's so much technology that's out ahead of its time too

 

[Jeff7181]

Any word on if latency will be reduced with the new standard? I see that being a greater benefit right now.