AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Working With a High Speed Connection for Loading 3D Images"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port is an interface specification to enhance the display speed and quality on PCs. 3-D images, whether on a CD-ROM or a web site, are much more complex and detailed than ordinary two dimensional images, and so are much larger files and require much more than ordinary processing power. The AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port uses your RAM.

By providing a high memory bandwidth "fast lane" for graphics data, AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port enables the hardware-accelerated graphics controller to execute texture maps directly from system memory. Normally, it would cache them in the limited local video memory. It also helps speed the flow of decoded video from the CPU to the graphics controller.

AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port refreshes the image on your monitor and supports these technologies necessary for displaying 3D images:

Texture mapping
Z-Buffering
Alpha blending

Intel built AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port support into its Pentium microprocessors. It is a platform bus specification to enable high performance display of 3D images - providing a dedicated, high speed port.

Intel says that AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port technology, combined with their Pentium® 4 processor delivers "performance across applications and usages demanded by end users." Applications include:

Streaming video
Image processing
Video content creation
3D
CAD
Games
Multimedia

These are the AGP / Accelerated Graphics Port basics.

Next: Beowulf Linux supercomputer

Use Your New Computer Career as a Stepping Stone to Even Greater Success

Send off for your free 7-part Techie Plus eCourse now. So that you can learn:

The 7 most important skills to even greater business achievement -- not to mention wealth and (maybe) fame
Why techies are expendable in bad times and how to protect yourself from them
Why the world's richest computer programmer has not written any code in ages
How one ex-engineer now makes $500,000 a year
The abilities most techies don't even realize they don't have -- which confines their success to their technical abilities
Why techies are expendable in bad times and how to protect yourself from them

It's fast and easy. You will receive the first part in your email box within minutes.

I respect your privacy. I will never sell, rent or trade your email address.

After you subscribe, the form will redirect you to a thank you page.

Thank you!

Rick Stooker

Permission is granted to reprint the above article in an ezine or on a website as long as it is reprinted in full, with no changes, with full credit and with this contact information and link included at the bottom. All other rights reserved.

Computer Careers (Home) Sitemap Contact Privacy

Info Ring Press

Richard Stooker

PO Box 617

130-G Ballwin Manor Dr

Ballwin, MO 63011

(636) 394-2052

rick@inforingpress.com