On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Bruce wrote:
GeForce FX5200 AGP 8X 64MB Video Memory.
Radeon 9200LE PCI 128MB Video Memory.
Which one would be considered to be the better
of the two?
The AGP card has about 16x the bandwidth of the PCI card, so the AGP
is the better card by far. Always use an AGP card in preference to a
PCI card. Always use a PCIe card in preference to an AGP.
What is considered more important:
AGP, or more memory?
I assume you're still talking about the video cards? AGP is more
important by far. The AGP card supports Core Image, which the PCI
doesn't. Using both might kill the acceleration of the AGP card. If
you need two displays it's better to use a dual headed AGP card with
lots of memory rather than adding a PCI card no matter how good the
PCI card is. There are a few PCI cards that do support both Quartz
Extreme & Core Image, but they're not common, and will be very slow in
comparison to an AGP.
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