Gigabyte's Radeon HD 4650: Are AGP Graphics Still Good Enough?

Don't they have an AGP HD 4670?

*Raise up hand*
I'm still using an AGP HD 2600XT :D.
Good to see that Gigabyte and actually Sapphire too coming up with another card for AGP. But frankly, we (most AGP users in my neighborhood ) are keeping our dollars for now since upgrading to a new system is the most likely option in 2010.

Another thing is, from the benchmarks, it got me worried if I ever upgrade my GPU since most of the result shows CPU bottleneck. If these are the result for a dual core Athlon, then it must be worse for my single core P4 HT :(

Oh BTW, are you reading the power consumption correctly?
"Even the Radeon HD 3850 and its GDDR3 memory peak at a mere 7 W more than the PCIe Radeon HD 4650 under load."
194 - 178 = 16W. So either the graph is wrong or you mis calculated.

amdfangirlDon't they have an AGP HD 4670?
a quick search for "agp 4670" on newegg gave me and (Core clock: 750 mhz, 1gb ddr3)

I own a pcie version of it and I really think before part 2 of this article goes up you should acquire one.

amdfangirlDon't they have an AGP HD 4670?
yah, i just saw that on the egg today. Must have just come out.
i liked the article btw. ouch at the performance numbers though xD