Intel introduced AGP support with the i440LX Slot 1 chipset on August 26, 1997, and a flood of products followed from all the major system board vendors. The first Socket 7 chipsets to support AGP were the VIA Apollo VP3, SiS 5591/5592, and the ALI Aladdin V.
FIC demonstrated the first Socket 7 AGP system board in November 1997 as the FIC PA-2012 based on the VIA Apollo VP3 chipset, followed very quickly by the EPoX P55-VP3 also based on the VIA VP3 chipset which was first to market. Early video chipsets featuring AGP support included the Rendition Vérité V2200, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Nvidia RIVA 128, 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage series, Matrox Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX/2.
The first Windows NT-based operating system to receive AGP support was Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3, introduced in 1997.
Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module. ==Versions== Intel released "AGP specification 1.0" in 1997.
Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module. ==Versions== Intel released "AGP specification 1.0" in 1997.
Since 2004, AGP has been progressively phased out in favor of PCI Express (PCIe); by mid-2008, PCI Express cards dominated the market and only a few AGP models were available, with GPU manufacturers and add-in board partners eventually dropping support for the interface in favor of PCI Express. == Advantages over PCI == As computers increasingly became graphically oriented, successive generations of graphics adapters began to push the limits of PCI, a bus with shared bandwidth.
The first bridged cards were the GeForce 6600 and ATI Radeon X800 XL boards, released during 2004–5.
In 2009 AGP cards from Nvidia had a ceiling of the GeForce 7 Series.
Many AGP cards had additional power connectors to supply them with more power than the slot could provide. ==Later use== By 2010, few new motherboards had AGP slots.
In 2011 DirectX 10-capable AGP cards from AMD vendors (Club 3D, HIS, Sapphire, Jaton, Visiontek, Diamond, etc.) included the Radeon HD 2400, 3450, 3650, 3850, 4350, 4650, and 4670.
Several of the vendors listed above make available past versions of the AGP drivers. In 2016, Windows 10 version 1607 dropped support for AGP videocards making Windows 10 1511 the last Windows release to support AGP.
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