Intel® 460GX Chipset Software Developer’s Manual
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AGP Subsystem
7.2.7.11
Fast Back-to-Back Transactions
The GXB as a PCI target will accept fast back-to-back cycles from a PCI master accessing different
agents during back-to-back sequence. As an initiator the GXB does not generate a fast back-to-
back cycle.
7.3
Bandwidth
The bandwidth of AGP 4X mode is 1 GB peak. The sustained bandwidth will be less than this. The
sustainable bandwidth obtainable with the GX is dependent on several things including the size of
the requests from the graphics card.
Table 7-5
shows an estimate of obtainable bandwidth. There is
a fairly broad range for each of the sizes. The bandwidth will depend on the mix of traffic. Traffic
consisting of all reads by the graphics card or all writes by the processor to the card will result in
higher bandwidths than a 50/50 mix of reads by the graphics card and writes by the processor to the
card. This table will change as the implementation is completed and should be viewed as a
guideline for the graphics card designer for relative performance trade-offs.
Table 7-3. Burst Write Combining Modes
Write Command
Used
Transfer
Mode
Data Length
Combining Supported
Memory Write
1X
< 4 DW
Can not be combined with the next access.
>= 4 DW
Can combine next access if it is sequential, regardless
of next access size.
Memory Write
2X
< 8 DW
Can not be combined with the next access.
>= 8 DW
Can combine next access if it is sequential, regardless
of next access size.
Memory Write
4X
< 16 DW
Can not be combined with the next access.
>= 16 DW
Can combine next access if it is sequential, regardless
of next access size.
Memory Write
Invalidate
All
must be Line
Can only combine sequential lines.
Table 7-4. Burst Write Combining Examples with 3 Writes in 1X Transfer Mode
1st write
2nd write
3rd write
Transferred as:
x DW
(x<4)
y DW
z DW
if y < 4
x DW followed by y DW followed by z DW
else
x DW followed by (y+z) DW
x DW
(x>=4)
y DW
z DW
if y < 4
(x+y) DW followed by z DW
else
(x+y+z) DW
Summary of Contents for 460GX
Page 1: ...Intel 460GX Chipset System Software Developer s Manual June 2001 Document Number 248704 001 ...
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Page 80: ...System Architecture 3 8 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
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Page 98: ...Memory Subsystem 5 8 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 146: ...AGP Subsystem 7 16 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 170: ...IFB Register Mapping 9 6 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 190: ...IFB Usage Considerations 10 20 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 232: ...LPC FWH Interface Configuration 11 42 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 244: ...IDE Configuration 12 12 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 258: ...Universal Serial Bus USB Configuration 13 14 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 270: ...SM Bus Controller Configuration 14 12 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 288: ...PCI LPC Bridge Description 15 18 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...
Page 294: ...IFB Power Management 16 6 Intel 460GX Chipset Software Developer s Manual ...