Mange har stadigvæk højtydende systemer, med AGP-port, og dem kommer ATi og Club3D nu til undsætning med AGP versioner af deres high-end kort. Indtil nu har det kun været muligt at få ATi Radeon X800XT med AGP-port, men ATi planlægger at introducere Radeon X800PRO, X800XL, samt X850 baserede grafikkort til AGP-porten, således at udvalget bliver ligeså bredt som til PCI Express.
Club3D, a well-known add-in-card vendor based in the Netherlands, included AGP 8x flavours of ATI?s latest RADEON X800- and RADEON X850-series of products into its catalogue for January ? April, 2005. While availability dates and pricing is unclear, the move confirms intention of ATI Technologies to offer new high-end products for the upgrade market that currently fully relies on AGP 8x.
Club3D Offers AGP 8x Versions of RADEON X850, X800
The list of products Club3D may offer in the January ? April, 2005, timeframe includes ATI RADEON X800-series products with 128MB or 256MB of memory and 128-bit/256-bit memory bus designed for PCI Express x16 or AGP 8x interconnection as well as RADEON X850-series with 256MB of 256-bit GDDR3 memory designed for systems with PCI Express x16 or AGP 8x. Læs mere her: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20050224044253.html