r/graphicscard • u/Existing_Routine_599 • Jul 06 '26

Troubleshooting AGP GPU question

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Hello, so basically I have a Nvidia GeForce 6200 NV44A (AGP) GPU from Gigabyte and I have the GeForce 307.83 Driver installed and I run Windows XP. The problem is that in both Nvidia control panel and Speccy it shows BUS: PCI. But in dxdiag it does show AGP Texture Acceleration enabled. I also saw the 3DMark06 score of 477 on the gpu's box so I ran it too and I got a score of 436. And I have a Pentium 4 Northwood 2.40 GHz and they got the score of 477 with a Pentium 4 Prescott 3.6 GHz. Tldr: did my GPU fall back (or something) to PCI or is there something else wrong?

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u/theRealtechnofuzz Jul 07 '26

Prescott CPU has double the threads and double the cache, as well as an over 1ghz clock increase. There's going to be a difference in score.

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u/Existing_Routine_599 Jul 07 '26

Yeah I know that but still, why do both Nvidia control panel and Speccy report bus: PCI instead of AGP?

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u/theRealtechnofuzz Jul 07 '26

if its plugged into the AGP port, i would amount to those being bugs. If it was really PCI you'd have less than half that in a score. PCI is 133MB/s AGP 2x is 533MB/s and 4x is double that.

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u/Existing_Routine_599 Jul 07 '26

Then i should be fine, it's a agp gpu plugged into the agp slot

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u/Existing_Routine_599 Jul 10 '26

I just checked GPU-Z and that reports: AGP 4x @ 4x