Albatron Technology set to deliver powerful AGP VGA card at great price
The Albatron AGP6800GS: Exciting Price/Performance, AGP based VGA card
Albatron Technology recently announced the new AGP6800GS VGA card featuring an NVIDIA®GeForceTM 6 series GPU for AGP based mainboards. Albatron has come out with this high-performer, which will match the capabilities of similar high-performance cards but will launch with a very affordable price.
With the AGP6800GS, you are looking at fairly serious gaming equipment. The engine core is rated at a speedy 350 MHz and contains 12 pipelines. This card also has a very attractive memory configuration using 256 MB of DDR3 memory with a 256-bit memory bus. The memory can also clock up to an impressive 1 GHz.
The AGP6800GS comes packed with NVIDIA's most durable lineup of graphics applications including a 3rd generation CineFXTM graphics engine that provides awesome 3D gaming. Also included are IntellisampleTM 3.0 and UltrashadowTM II technologies that render the most realistic images of the most difficult graphics applications.
The AGP6800GS contains two independent 400 MHz RAMDACs with resolutions up to 2048 x 1536x 32 bpp @ 85 Hz. This goes hand-in-hand with the card's nViewTM dual display technology. The AGP6800GS will support TV-OUT, DVI and D-sub interfaces.
Serious gamers looking for a price-friendly VGA upgrade need to put the AGP6800GS on top of their lists. With powerful memory configurations and NVIDIA's proven graphics capabilities, the AGP6800GS is ready to quench your thirst for incredi-graphical performance.
nvidia is starting to support AGP systems with more and more video cards. I guess the rrans to PCI-e isn't going as fast (mainstream) as they had hoped...........
ATI told us at their last editor's day that they were not going to produce any AGP cards on their new X1K series. As you can tell it did take several months, but GeCube designed their own PCB and have AGP cards based on these GPU's. Since there is no reference design to copy I am highly interested in how the performance compares to the original PCIe cards. But you are 100% right the move to PCIe and DDR2 is slower than expected, which I believe hurts Intel more than any other company.
AGP 8 is just as fast as PCIe...........
The ONLY reason to go with PCIe now is because all new hardware comes on a PCIe board.....If AMD made a socket A X2 I'd have gone for that, It would have allowed me to keep using my x800 card.........
I hope ASUS re-think their policies on the x1*** series on AGP........A whole lot of people would be happy campers!
thats not quite true, PCIe is much faster, but what is also true is that a graphics card on AGP 8x and a graphics card on PCIe 16x using the same GPU will have the same performance. But when it comes to the better design and faster connection PCIe wins hands down. Thats why you wont find a Turbo Cache or HyperMemory card on an AGP board, the bandwidth is to limited to use system memory effectivly, but on PCIe there is soooooo much bandwidth that system memory can be used in palce of onboard.
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