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Old April 10th 04, 04:45 PM
Roland Scheidegger
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Roland Scheidegger wrote:
There were lots of comparisons between AGP and PCI when AGP was new, and
resolution just doesn't matter.
Resolution COULD make a difference, but only if you're running out of
local graphic memory because of the higher resolution - but this is
unlikely to happen, since the z/frame/back buffer don't use that much
memory (if you're not using FSAA which you can't really use with those
low-end cards).


Here's a recent test, and you can actually see that the difference gets
SMALLER between pci and agp with higher resolution (which actually is
expected, since the same amount of geometry data is transfered, but the
card has to work harder thus lower framerates, and the difference is
quite small to begin with at 800x600 and non-existant at higher
resolutions (compare the club3d lp and sapphire pci 64MB card, those
have same clocks, both 64bit memory interface, though the pci card has
only 64MB while the agp card has 128MB).
http://www.ati-news.de/HTML/Berichte...I-Seite5.shtml
(btw forget the aquamark results, this test definitely penalizes cards
with less ram, the 3dmark01 results though show that there is indeed a
difference between pci and agp cards - but again, the difference does
not grow with higher resolution).

Roland