Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) is a hardware interface designed to connect a graphics card, video card, or 3D accelerator to a computer system to speed up 3D video output. The card standard was introduced by Intel in 1997 as a replacement for the older Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface.
Typically, PCI graphics cards are known to receive data in ‘groups,’ which are later used to create a graphical image. For example, while projecting an image on a system, the PCI card would receive length, width, and height at different intervals. Upon data reception, it would aggregate all this data to present the whole image finally. However, AGP cards receive all the image data at once. As a result, it produces sharper and smoother graphics in a quick time.
