SK0-003 · Question #43
Which of the following expansion card slots was designed specifically for video cards?
The correct answer is C. AGP. Among various expansion card slots, one was specifically developed to provide a dedicated high-speed connection for graphics cards, improving their performance by allowing direct access to system memory.
Question
Which of the following expansion card slots was designed specifically for video cards?
Options
- APCIe
- BISA
- CAGP
- DPCIx
How the community answered
(20 responses)- C95% (19)
- D5% (1)
Why each option
Among various expansion card slots, one was specifically developed to provide a dedicated high-speed connection for graphics cards, improving their performance by allowing direct access to system memory.
PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is a modern, general-purpose serial expansion bus that replaced AGP and PCI for all types of expansion cards, not exclusively for video.
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is a very old, slow expansion bus, largely obsolete, and was not designed for high-performance video cards.
The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) was specifically designed in 1997 as a dedicated point-to-point channel for graphics cards to directly access system memory for textures and other graphics data. It provided a significant performance improvement over general-purpose PCI slots for video processing.
PCIx (PCI-Extended) was an enhancement to the parallel PCI bus, primarily used for servers and network cards requiring higher bandwidth, not specifically for consumer video cards.
Concept tested: Graphics card expansion slot types (AGP)
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/display/accelerated-graphics-port-agp
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