The Gigabyte 6800GT: AGP’s Last Hurrah?

[Steve]

We all know how wonderful PCI-Express is and how it provides oodles of bandwidth to expansion cards and of course, graphics cards. However, AGP cards are still in demand because PCI-Express uptake will take a while. So, in this age of transition from one slot to another, if you're looking to upgrade right now, what is the wise choice? Stick with AGP, or move on to PCIe?

Its been just under a year since NVIDIA launched the 6800GT and almost exactly 8 months since the debut of PCI-Express. If the tech industry was still moving at the gallop of the late 90s and early 2000s, we’d already be reviewing NVIDIA’s next-generation and AGP would be on its way out the door. Looking around the market, that’s obviously not the case; PCI-E may be the unquestioned successor to the AGP standard, but the old interface isn’t exactly galloping off into the sunset.

Sudhian review Gigabyte's 6800GT AGP.