what is the advantage of AGP bus in details

[amony89]

hello, everybody
i want the advantage of AGP bus in details
but i want more information about it and compare AGP BUS and PCI

[RicheemxX]

Accelerated Graphics Port - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - gives you all the info you'd need

[stroyal]

AGP is an outdated graphics slot.
PCI hasn't been used for graphics, for years. (older than AGP, but still used for other expansion cards like network, and sound)

I'm curious, why you didn't ask about PCI-express x16.
That is what is used for graphics today.

[amony89]

thank you ,
but i want more information

[JPMiller]

A. You've been given all the pertinent info, all of which you could have googled yourself...
B. If your too rude to answer a simple query, why would anyone feel obligated to help you any further?
C. part of the reason in asking is to ascertain What info your actually looking for.

[stroyal]

So do we.
If the article Rich posted, isn't enough, you are going to have to elaborate.
I don't know anyone here that is going to type dozens of pages, until we accidentally stumble on what you are after.

The bottom line is
PCI 33MB/s (wrong see below)
AGP 66MB/s
PCI-e X16 4000MB/s x2 because it can send both ways @ the same time.

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[amony89]

thank you stroyal ididnt mean dozens of page but can i get book about AGP and PCI BUS

[stroyal]

There is no book, it would be a chapter in a book about computers.

You still haven't answered my question.

I still don't know, if you are confusing PCI, with PCI-e.

[amony89]

so where this chapter in what book
i confusing PCI

[stroyal]

No offense, but the most common would be Computers for Dummies.

I haven't read a book on computers for almost 30 years,

It is amazing what you can find, by googling ( PCI-express vs AGP) or PCI vs PCI-express or just
PCI-express, or PCI, or AGP.

You will come up with dozens of pages that look like this.
What is PCI Express? A Layman's Guide to High Speed PCI-E Technology-Best Computer Online Store Houston Buy Discount Prices Texas-Directron.com

[stroyal]

Sorry, I mixed MHz with MB/s
Frequency/ bus speed vs bandwith
33MHz and 132 MB/s for PCI

66MHz and 2199 MB/s for AGP 8X

That's what happens when you get old.

Edit
PCI-e 100MHz and 4000MB/s duplex

[amony89]

i making a report in the college in AGP bus but i want to add the different between AGP bus and PCI so my report for AGP BUS

[Detritus]

So you're asking us to do your homework for you?

[ShyguyXPC]

PCI 32-bit & PCI 64-bit = Slow

AGP 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x & AGP Pro = Faster

PCI Express 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0 x16 = Fastest

AGP is nothing more than a Fast Dedicated High Bandwidth Variation on the Older PCI slot, using Parallel Data Transmission, Thats used Exclusively Only for Video cards, connected to the Motherboards Chipset.

Since the PCI Bus is shared, the given Data Bandwidth of PCI is shared between all the cards or devices plugged into it, AGP gives a Video card, that needs a Huge amount of Data Bandwidth, its own Bus to connect to the Chipset, CPU and rest of the system. The AGP bus guarantee's the Video card has enough Bandwidth to run effectively. Primarily for Computer Games, and High End Graphics Processing used for 3D Graphics/Animation, and CAD like work.

[amony89]

So you're asking us to do your homework for you?

something like that but i don't have a reference because we are live in iraq
and the references is little

[stroyal]

But the internet is a huge reference, I learned 99% of what I know about computers on the internet.

Google a name, title, or any phrase, and you get all kinds of information.

[-FMA]

What is the advantage? There isn't one, it's 2011. It's been that way for a while, but if you're wanting to know the advantage of outdated technology over even more outdated technology, wikipedia has enough information on this.

The only reason to go AGP is if you don't have enough money for a new computer and your computer is too old and doesn't have PCI-E.

[RicheemxX]

So you're asking us to do your homework for you?

something like that but i don't have a reference because we are live in iraq
and the references is little

All the reference you need is in my original link wikipedia even cites more references that you could have looked up. We aren't going to write out a full description for you.

[ShyguyXPC]

To add to Rich's AGP Wikipedia Link, here's the link for PCI as well.

Conventional PCI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Since your comparing the two, you'll need that info as well as the AGP info in Rich's link above.