If there's one thing constant about the video card battles its that there's always something better coming. The last two years has seen the evolution of the video card from the DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2.0 realm to the 3.0 realm. Later this year with the release of Windows Vista, we're likely to see a further upgrade to the 4.0 standard from both NVIDIA and ATI. The bus interface has evolved from the AGP standard to the PCI Express standard..



Link: Motherboards.org