NVIDIA and 8X AGP

NVIDIA Offer Industry's First and Only Full Family of AGP 8X GPU and Core Logic Solutions is a press release from NVIDIA announcing their support for the AGP 8X spec. Here's a bit: "Today's fast-paced 'fly-through' applications and games will see significant improvements in overall performance due to the doubled AGP 8X speed. By combining the performance and scalability of AGP8X GPU and a high performance 128MB DDR frame buffer; the GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8X GPU delivers more than two times the graphics performance of competitive products. Support for AGP 8X extends beyond the GeForce4 family of desktop GPUs and into all the motherboard designs based on NVIDIA's highly anticipated nForce2 core logic products. By featuring AGP 8X, NVIDIA's nForce2 platform processors help reduce system bottlenecks, allowing for increased system performance and stability."

Thanks Bluesnews!

ah the moment ive been waiting for so long as finaly arrived...


heres the quote from Nvidia's press release which can be found HERE

NVIDIA Offers Industry's First and Only Family of AGP 8X GPU and Core Logic Solutions



GeForce4 Ti, GeForce4 MX and nForce2 Processors All Harness the Power of AGP 8X and the Intel AGP 3.0 Specification

For further information, contact:

Brian Burke
NVIDIA Corporation
(512) 401-4385
bburke@nvidia.com

For Immediate Release:

TAIPEI, TAIWAN AND SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 25, 2002—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the industry’s first and only comprehensive family of AGP 8X-based products. Based on Intel’s AGP 3.0 specification, NVIDIA now offers an extensive range of top-to-bottom graphics processing units (GPUs) and platform processors for next-generation digital media, gaming, and business PC platforms. NVIDIA’s AGP 8X product line-up, which includes the NVIDIA® GeForce™4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8X and the GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP 8X desktop GPUs, as well as the new nForce2Ô platform processors, forms the technology foundation for the world’s most advanced PCs.

“AGP 8X is the foundation of the new world of PC computing,” said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “By offering the industry’s only top-to-bottom AGP 8X product family, we are able to provide robust AGP 8X solutions delivering increased graphics performance. Our GPUs are the most complete implementation of the AGP 8X specification and are used as the reference hardware for AGP 8X.”

AGP 8X doubles the graphics bandwidth of the AGP interface to 2.1 gigabytes per second (GB/sec.). This keeps data hungry GPUs fed with the information necessary to render high frame rate, high fidelity, and real-time graphics.

“NVIDIA has been a defining force in graphics technology for many years, and the input we incorporated from NVIDIA ensures that this new industry standard specification meets the needs of their future graphics architectures, “said Jason Ziller, Technology Initiatives Manager at Intel Corporation. “As graphics technology continues to progress at a rapid pace, we will soon see an influx of workstation-class applications and 3D games with stunning visuals. AGP 8X is the next big step to make sure Workstations and PCs can handle the massive amount of data that those applications will transmit.”

Today’s fast-paced “fly-through” applications and games will see significant improvements in overall performance due to the doubled AGP 8X speed. By combining the performance and scalability of AGP8X GPU and a high performance 128MB DDR frame buffer; the GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP 8X GPU delivers more than two times the graphics performance of competitive products.

Support for AGP 8X extends beyond the GeForce4 family of desktop GPUs and into all the motherboard designs based on NVIDIA’s highly anticipated nForce2 core logic products. By featuring AGP 8X, NVIDIA’s nForce2 platform processors help reduce system bottlenecks, allowing for increased system performance and stability.

A variety of new platforms featuring NVIDIA’s AGP 8X products will be introduced from the following PC OEMs:

4MBO International Electronics AG
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC)
HP
MicronPC.com
Shuttle Computer
Add-in cards and motherboards based on NVIDIA’s AGP 8X product line-up will be introduced from the following NVIDIA partners:

ASUStek
Chaintech
Epox
eVGA.com
Gainward
Jaton
Leadtek Research
MSI
PNY Technologies, Inc.

It will be interesting to see if nVidia has the same AGP 8X issues that ATI has seen with the Radeon 9700. Also, how much good will 8X do an MX card?

[Uranium-235]

probably not much. oh yeah if nobody has figured out yet:

1x AGP = ~208 MBPS
2x AGP = ~519 MBPS
4X AGP = ~1.1 GBPS
8X AGP = ~2.1 GBPS

i hope it makes a big diffrence and not just like a little minor speed bump

we shall see

im wondering if TWL is getting a sample to review