Rage3D HIS X850XT IceQII Platinum Edition and X850XT IceQII Turbo AGP Review

Zardon · May 11, 2005, 11:34 PM

With ATI loyalists screaming for AGP boards, ATI finally made a couple of moves to increase their AGP product range. The key move was Rialto, ATI's PEG-to-AGP bridge chip. Rialto is a small chip that sits on the back of ATI's graphics cards and converts the signals coming from native PCI-Express graphics cores into signals that the AGP bus can understand. Basically it allows ATI to design a native PCI-Express chip and put it on an AGP graphics card.

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May 11, 2005, 11:34 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Rage3D HIS X850XT IceQII Platinum Edition and X850XT IceQII Turbo AGP Review With ATI loyalists screaming for AGP boards, ATI finally made a couple of moves to increase their AGP product range. The key move was Rialto, ATI's PEG-to-AGP bridge chip. Rialto is a small chip that sits on the back of ATI's graphics cards and converts the signals coming from native PCI-Express graphics cores into signals that the AGP bus can understand. Basically it allows ATI to design a native PCI-Express chip and put it on an AGP graphics card. rage3d