Heya, I can't add a lot to this discussion, but maybe ti helps a little bit. This is a link to a page with info about pci-express and a comparison to pci: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/vectors/en/2004_pciexpress?c=us&l=en&s=corp
I found it a helpfull page. Greetings, Michel > Jon Smirl wrote: >> What bus interface is the card going to have? PCI is hopelessly slow >> for graphics. > > It depends on what you are sending over the bus. AGP was designed to > rapidly access system memory so that it could be used for graphics > memory. Having a lot of memory on the video board tends to negate this > need. We could use 64 bit @ 66 MHz. > >> If you do AGP you also need AGP port support. > > It depends. An AGP port can also function as a PCI port if we don't > need the rapid system memory access. > >> PCI-express needs the PCI-express way of mapping VRAM into the CPU/GPU >> address spaces. > > Is there a method that PCIe uses to access system memory that is > different from PCI? That is, does it have some method like AGP? > > -- > JRT > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
