{"id":273,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:25:16","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-108","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=273","title":{"rendered":"AGP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>AGP<\/title>\n<p>\nOne of latest entrants to the alphabet soup of <glossary>bus<\/glossary>\ntypes is the Accelerated\nGraphics Port (AGP). As its name implies, AGP is intended as a <glossary>bus<\/glossary>\nfor graphics\ncards. Although <glossary>PCI<\/glossary>\nis more than sufficient for most users needs, there are some\nshortcoming with high-end applications. The need for something like AGP arises\nfrom problems when creating 3D graphics, which use a &#8220;texture map&#8221; to get the\nnecessary effects. The problem lies in the fact that most video cards deal with\nat most 8MB, but texture maps are reaching 10 or even 20 MB (probably more by\nthe time you read this.)\n<p>\nAdded to this memory limitation is the\nbandwidth required to transfer that amount of data quickly. To get real-time 3D\ngraphics, you need far better <glossary>throughput<\/glossary>\nthan loading a document into\nWordPerfect. Added to this fact is that there is just s single <glossary>PCI<\/glossary>\n<glossary>bus<\/glossary>,\n which\nmakes it even more of a <glossary>bottleneck<\/glossary>.\n<p>\nIn essence the AGP is high-speed path\nbetween system memory and the video controller. It is no longer necessary to\nstore things like the texture maps in the system memory rather than in the\nlimited space of the video card. Because data transfer across the AGP bus can be up to\nfourth times that on the <glossary>PCI<\/glossary>\n<glossary>bus<\/glossary>, AGP provides even better performance.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AGP One of latest entrants to the alphabet soup of bus types is the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP). As its name implies, AGP is intended as a bus for graphics cards. Although PCI is more than sufficient for most users &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=273\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}