The VR-Zone broke the news that G86 won't have the AGP
version after all. You can find their story here. We checked with a few of our
contacts and it seems they are right. We got the different information's before
as at least few Far East partners have G86 AGP on their roadmaps, scheduled for
April.
It still doesn’t make much sense as DAAMIT plans to have
DirectX 10 parts working on an AGP slots. It is still a huge market. Our
industry sources confirmed that G86 is simply not compatible with a HSI interconnection,
bridge chip and that it simply cannot work.
We will try to get to the bottom of it but I hope that Nvidia
won't fail its AGP market as they deserve an AGP part. Maybe Graphzilla decided to move on
and say the AGP final goodbye but we simply don’t buy it as this would also
mean waiving to the profits as well. For the time being Nvidia wont have any
AGP based DirectX 10 parts.