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CeBIT - ATI R6xx cards with AGP?

The question is not as airy as we first believe.

PC Games Hardware asked Vijay Sharma, ATI’s separate (i.e. non-integrated) director of desktop products, who said the R6xx chip is compatible with the Rialto Bridge. The Rialto Bridge is responsible for porting otherwise PCI Express-coupled chips to AGP, making it physically possible to create an R600-based AGP-coupled card.

If the news is true and AMD releases a DirectX 10 card with an AGP interface, NVIDIA can't be left behind, even though they claim they don't make such a DX10 card, so AGP still doesn't need to be buried . It is a question of which segment the cards issued come from. It is suspected that it is not from the top.

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