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 ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT Definition
We define ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT |
ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT - A dedicated expansion port that began to show up on motherboards in the second half of 1997. It bypasses the PCI bus and allows higher throughput from the graphics card to the processor and memory for speedier 3D graphics. Original AGP cards were "1x" versions that ran at 66MHz, offering 266MB/second throughput; but now AGP supports up to 8X data transfer speeds, which means the card still runs at 66MHz, but transfers 8x as much data per clock tick, upping the throughput to 2.1GB/second. Although the throughput is much greater, most graphics cards have a large amount of local memory and thus do not get much of a bonus from faster AGP speeds. |
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