New revision of NVIDIA BR02 IC set to bring GeForce 8 to AGP

Back to the er... future -- looks like NV got enough of the ATi's success with their AGP X1K mainstream SKUs, so why just sit and watch.

 

BR02 wasn't strictly designed for G73. In fact, it was around long before that.

Geforce PCX (Geforce FX bridged from AGP to PCIe), Geforce 6800 GT/Ultra (same as the former, but for the NV40 GPU), Geforce 6200/6600 (first ones bridged from the native PCIe interface back to AGP), etc.
All of them came out before any Geforce 7 had ever hit the market.

There was no "BR01" (and "BR03" was the PCIe lane manager in the Geforce 7900 GX2/7950 GX2 cards).


Personally, i think AGP should just die already.
Most platforms with AGP support won't be seeing any tangible performance enhancements due to CPU/RAM limitation anyway...