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The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture and Programming (8086 to Pentium), 1st Edition
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The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture and Programming (8086 to Pentium), 1st Edition

by Lyla B. Das
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
665 pages
23h 2m
English
Pearson India
Content preview from The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture and Programming (8086 to Pentium), 1st Edition
568 THE x86 MICROPROCESSORS
e AGP bus is a high-speed 32-bit bus specifi cally designed for a video card. Since
video and 3D graphics need high speed access to the system RAM, special video cards have
been designed, with extra on-board RAM, a specialized graphics processor and other features.
However, this card will be useless unless it has high speed access to the CPU and system RAM.
is need made Intel design a special port for it, placed close to the processor connected to the
North Bridge or Memory Controller Hub of the chipset and is manifested as a single AGP slot
in systems that support it.
AGP is a high speed bus with a clock frequency of 66.66 MHz. In the basic mode, called
AGP 1x, there is only one channel of transfer of 32 bits ...
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