Why is NVS 400 a PCI Card Instead of AGP?

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The NVIDIA NVS 400 is quad display 2D workstation card with a PCI interface.
The NVS 280 is the dual display card, but this one is AGP 8x on the bus
interface. Why would NVIDIA make its quad display card PCI and its dual
display card AGP? If anything, the quad display should use more bus to
power extra screen pixels, and should therefore benefit more from the AGP
interface.

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CHANGE USERNAME TO westes wrote:

> The NVIDIA NVS 400 is quad display 2D workstation card with a PCI
> interface. The NVS 280 is the dual display card, but this one is AGP 8x on
> the bus
> interface. Why would NVIDIA make its quad display card PCI and its dual
> display card AGP? If anything, the quad display should use more bus to
> power extra screen pixels, and should therefore benefit more from the AGP
> interface.

They make the 280 both ways. Generally speaking quad-display cards are
targeted at the workstations used in brokerage houses and the like, where
there is a need for a lot of display area but not for any particularly high
level of performance. In some cases those machines will have 8 or more
displays attached, which means two or more video boards--in that case PCI
makes things simpler.


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