Accelerated Graphics Port
accelerated graphics port
[ak‚sel·ə‚rād·əd ′graf·iks ‚pȯrt]Accelerated Graphics Port
(hardware, graphics)AGP dynamically allocates the PC's normal RAM to store thescreen image and to support texture mapping, z-bufferingand alpha blending.
Intel has built AGP into a chipset for its Pentium IImicroprocessor. AGP cards are slightly longer than a PCIcard.
AGP operates at 66 MHz, doubled to 133 MHz, compared withPCI's 33 Mhz. AGP allows for efficient use of frame buffermemory, thereby helping 2D graphics performance as well.
AGP provides a coherent memory management design which allowsscattered data in system memory to be read in rapid bursts.AGP reduces the overall cost of creating high-end graphicssubsystems by using existing system memory.
Specification.