The high-performance x16 configuration will have up to 4GB/sec bandwidth to replace AGP technology and will also have four times the bandwidth of AGP 8x!
With the advent of PCI Express video cards whole new worlds of 3D gaming and superior graphics performance will be possible. ATI and nVidia have already developed video cards using PCI express architecture and in just a short couple years will be the dominant video card interface and only choice for 3D graphics power users. The new video processors have a native, or “true” PCI Express interface. They can communicate directly with the PCI Express bus at PCI Express speeds (do not need to use a bridge).
With double the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, NVIDIA’s PCI Express solutions deliver a new level of PC performance for graphics and networking. NVIDIA’s desktop, mobile, and workstation PCI Express solutions provide something for every type of PC user; delivering faster graphics and system performance for your PC. While the classic PCI Bus is based upon a parallel architecture, PCI Express is serial based, drastically reducing pin count. It is a point to point protocol much like AGP. Devices do not share bandwidth.
The usual PCI system is laid out in something like the following diagram:
With the advent of PCI Express video cards whole new worlds of 3D gaming and superior graphics performance will be possible. ATI and nVidia have already developed video cards using PCI express architecture and in just a short couple years will be the dominant video card interface and only choice for 3D graphics power users. The new video processors have a native, or “true” PCI Express interface. They can communicate directly with the PCI Express bus at PCI Express speeds (do not need to use a bridge).
With double the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, NVIDIA’s PCI Express solutions deliver a new level of PC performance for graphics and networking. NVIDIA’s desktop, mobile, and workstation PCI Express solutions provide something for every type of PC user; delivering faster graphics and system performance for your PC. While the classic PCI Bus is based upon a parallel architecture, PCI Express is serial based, drastically reducing pin count. It is a point to point protocol much like AGP. Devices do not share bandwidth.
The usual PCI system is laid out in something like the following diagram:
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