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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.

Some early AGP boards used graphics processors built around PCI and were simply bridged to AGP.

This resulted in the cards benefiting little from the new bus, with the only improvement used being the 66 MHz bus clock, with its resulting doubled bandwidth over PCI, and bus exclusivity.

Examples of such cards were the Voodoo Banshee, Vérité V2200, Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX / 2.

Intel's i740 was explicitly designed to exploit the new AGP feature set.

In fact it was designed to texture only from AGP memory, making PCI versions of the board difficult to implement ( local board RAM had to emulate AGP memory.