Second, the AGP is good only on streaming data, but for
other plain 2-D tasks they had to keep a back door, in
a form of supplementary PCI-like channel, but with lower
performance than regular PCI!
Ali, you should leave the discussion of technical matters to people who have a clue. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
Forth, manufacturers of video DRAMs did not sleep on laurels
and come up with affordable products. If you check out, say,
BestBuy, you may find out a bunch of 3-D video cards with
16MB of memory, for just $129! This is the market answer to
Intel's AGP "innovation" - 16MB Voodoo-accelerated card for $129.
This is completely irrelevent. There will always be less video memory available than main memory, and hence there will always be a need to move texture data quickly. Not to mention, the higher bandwidth is also needed to moving other types of data as well.
But hey, nobody's forcing you to use a high speed bus for your graphics card. In fact you can still get ISA cards, so you don't have to use the evil PCI that Intel is trying to foist on you. |
