What is the absolute fastest OGL AGP card available?

[Fat Tone]

That's the question. Need to soup up an old AGP system, programming in OpenGL.

TIA.

T.

[rylan]

It kind of depends on the application. Are you using any specialized OGL apps, or writing your own? I ask since some of the speciality graphics boards like ATI FireGL and the nVidia Quadro have special acceleration support for OGL calls above what the normal commercial level boards do.
If you can take advantage of that, then that series of boards will be faster.

[Fat Tone]

The system was bought with a Wildcat 6110 for use with custom VR s/w. At the time the vendors thought a recent nVidea card would have been as good but the guy wanted to stick with what he knew. Now its someone else using the system, writing everything in C++.

Ta.

[ZokesPro]

What is the absolute fastest OGL AGP card available?

Answer: three letters...M3D, nuff said.



Seriously though, I was going to suggest another 3Dlabs products but...

On February 24th 2006, Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF) announced that its subsidiary, 3Dlabs® Inc., Ltd. will refocus its 3D graphics business on the portable handheld device market and de-emphasize its professional workstation graphics business.

3DLABS will continue to support its Legacy Wildcat graphics cards, but no longer sell or develop Wildcat graphics products.

Don't know much about it but seems like the nVidia Tesla S870 seems to pack quite the punch.

Product: Tesla S870
# of GPUs 4
Total Dedicated Memory: 6 GB (1.5 GB GDDR3 per GPU)
Peak Flops: Over 500 gigaflops per GPU
Floating Point Precision: IEEE 754 single-precision floating point

[Fat Tone]

Wow. that's quite a cruncher, but I think I'd have to mod it a bit to get it into an AGP slot

[ZokesPro]

Wow. that's quite a cruncher, but I think I'd have to mod it a bit to get it into an AGP slot

Force it in there, it'll fit.

[rylan]

Force it in there, it'll fit.

Man, thats just too easy to make jokes about!

[rylan]

Anyway, the FireGL X3-256 is a pretty fast AGP board. Besides that, from ATI the highest AGP board is the 1650 Pro I believe.
From nVidia its the Quadro FX4000 which if I recall is faster than ATI's FireGL board.

[mmp121]

Actually I believe the fastest ATI/AMD AGP card are some X1950 GT, PRO and XT's. At least that's what a quick search on Newegg shows.

[Mehen]

The X1950Pro can be found for a pretty decent price, and I believe the XT's have come down, and are a fair bit faster. Availability might be an issue with the XT though.

[ZokesPro]

Wow. that's quite a cruncher, but I think I'd have to mod it a bit to get it into an AGP slot

I'm too lazy to do a search but isn't there an PCI-e to AGP connector you can get or something? I think someone posted it somewhere in the GH forum.

[Fat Tone]

Rings a vague bell, but I don't need it now, thanks. Long story.
Ta for the suggestions.

[rylan]

Haha, if there was a PCI-e to AGP connector I'm sure it was a joke. You'd need a bridge chip to do that, and it will run slower than AGP.

[Mehen]

I'm too lazy to do a search but isn't there an PCI-e to AGP connector you can get or something? I think someone posted it somewhere in the GH forum.

There might be AGP to PCI-E but not likely the other way around.

[Nowhere]

Few hours back I've stumbled on info that 8-series Geforce chips will have AGP version soon(tm). Just saying, if you want to wait a bit...

(I think possible given that DX10 Radeons showed up in AGP versions...)