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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39615)	4/11/2000 4:00:00 PM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

No graphics card will ever need the texturing ability of AGP. (This was true for the first 1.5 years after AGP release, but not true anymore. Actually, the AGP texturing ability is still useless, at least at the high end. 1 year old graphcis cards (TNT2 and Voodoo3) ship with up to 3 GB/sec of memory bandwidth (183 MHz x 128 bit). Compare that with AGP 2x (which was the best available until i820 shipped) at 1.056 GB/sec. The AGP bandwidth is still quite usefull for moving textures to the graphics card and for sending vertex data, but absolutely no developers are using AGP texturing (which means rending the textures straight from main memory via AGP). So Tom has a long history of being anti-Intel Tom always hypes the underdog to generate web hits. He also rigs all his benchmarks to come out in his favor. Plaz