What determines a symbolic card speed?

Also, What type of slots are near. I heard it be AGP, PCI+ and another, can you tell me what they stand for?

What determines a symbolic card speed?

A lot of things:



Clock speed of the processing part (core speed)

# of pixel processing units onboard (i.e. # of pipelines)

memory type onboard (DRAM? VRAM? DDR2 GRAM? GRAM? DDR3?)

memory interface size (64-bit? 128-bit? 256-bit? Larger?)

memory clock speed (memory speed)

pixel processing helpfulness (this one is not a numerical measurement)



AGP, PCI, and PCI-Express are the slots.



PCI = Peripheral Component Interconnect, a standard pushed by Intel to replace the older ISA but and its successors, VLB, EISA, and MicroChannel.



AGP = Accelerated / Advanced Graphics Port, better than PCI, primarily. Available from X1 to X8.



PCI-Express, even faster than AGP, replaces PCI, available from X1 to X16 (for video cards).

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