AGP stands for Accelerated Graphics Port, a high-speed interface developed by Intel in 1997 to connect graphics cards directly to a computer’s motherboard. Unlike PCI slots, AGP provides a dedicated pathway for graphics data, allowing for faster and more efficient rendering of 3D graphics and video. This made it especially valuable for gaming, CAD, and other graphics-intensive applications during its era. AGP supported multiple data transfer rates (1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x), improving bandwidth with each version. Although AGP was widely used in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has since been replaced by PCI Express (PCIe), which offers even greater speed and flexibility for modern graphics cards.