Intel i740 AGP

Technical details
Name: i740
Company: Intel
Chipset: Intel i740 (Auburn) at 55 MHz
Bus: AGP 2x
RAM: 8 MB SDRAM 10 ns 64 bit 110 MHz
DAC: integrated 220 MHz 32 bit
Connectors: VGA
Direct3D: 5
OpenGL 1.1
Manufactured: 1998


The Intel i740 was a 3D accelerator from Intel to promote the at this time new AGP bus. The on board SDRAM is for framebuffer only. For texturing the AGP bus is always used which offers half of the bandwidth compared to the on board memory. Then benchmarks showed that the PCI version performed faster in benchmarks. The cards performance is compareable with a Riva128.

Intel i740 drivers

Intel i740 performing in Unreal Tournament, 3DMark2000, 3DMark2001SE, XL-R8R: