Accelereted Graphics port

Supported by: sir Asish ku.dalei

By S.Sharmila devi s/04/07

Contents
Introduction Requirements Graphic card Versions AGP pro cards AGP express and some special features of agp

What is agp????????

The Accelerated Graphics Port(also called Advanced Graphics Port)is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphic card to a computers motherboard primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3d computer graphic 3 dcomputer graphics PCI express

Requirements
AGP Video Card AGP Chipset Motherboard Operating System Support Driver Support

What are graphic cards

Creating animation to simple tasks such as word processing ,e mail use graphics to create a more intuitive work enviroment for the User. the hardware to support these graphics is called GRAPHICS card

Versions
AGP 1x: maximum data rate of 266megabytes AGP 2x : maximum data rate of 533megabytes AGP 4x : maximum data rate of 1066megabytes AGP 8x : maximum data rate of 2133megabytes

AGP v/s PCI

Graphical oriented Dedicated pathway AGP uses side band addressing AGP read texture directly from ram

In computer hardware, a feature of the (AGP). This feature maximizes the efficiency AGP bus By separating the address bus from the data bus via the addition of 8 extra 8-bit wide interface sideband lines (Sideband Address Port). This allows the graphics controller to issue new AGP requests and commands at the sam time with other AGP data flowing via the mai 32 address/data (AD) lines. This results in improving overall AGP data throughput

Agp pro Cards

They require more power and are often longer than standard AGP cards employed in the fields of architecture, machining, engineering, simulations The AGP Pro slot has a few extra pins which supply extra power to the graphics card.

AGP Express
It is a way to allow an AGP card to be connected over the PCI bus. An "AGP Express" slot is basically two PCI slots wired together in the AGP form factor. Its disadvantage includes: incomplete support reduced performance

One AGP slot and two PCI slots

conclusion
Traffic on the PCI bus is starting to become heavy on high-end PCs, with video, hard disk and peripheral data all competing for the same I/O bandwidth. To combat the eventual saturation of the PCI bus with video information, a new interface has been pioneered by Intel, designed specifically for the video subsystem. It is called the Accelerated Graphics Port