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AGP 8X A Closer Look
Posted by philipp on: 12/10/2002 01:18 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
OCAddiction takes a closer look at the newly introduced AGP 8X specification.
Isochronous Mode? Another buzzword we haven't heard before. Quite simply, Isochronous Mode provides predictable and uninterrupted data flow. This may not sound like much, but AGP 1.0 and 2.0 specs just could not deliver the amount of bandwidth that current applications need, such as video broadcasting and streaming video. AGP 3.0 makes it possible.
Now lets get a bit more technical for a moment and introduce clocking changes that AGP 3.0 brings about. The common clock frequency of the AGP spec remain the same, at 66MHz. However, we are now seeing source synchronous signals "strobed" at 8X the common clock frequency. Thus AGP 8X.
Now lets get a bit more technical for a moment and introduce clocking changes that AGP 3.0 brings about. The common clock frequency of the AGP spec remain the same, at 66MHz. However, we are now seeing source synchronous signals "strobed" at 8X the common clock frequency. Thus AGP 8X.
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