ATi did. However ATi is notably not NVIDIA. There are also both 20 and 24 pipe versions of the 7800 GS on AGP but I still assumed you were talking about the 16 pipe from the 7600 GT comparison. Even that falls short of the 7800 GS often due to the 128-bit GDDR3 bandwidth limiting vertex and ROP performance. In vertex heavy games it struggles more (like Far Cry/Crysis). More important is that older software support where the Terascale cards have more inconsistent performance but G70 really thrives. DX7/DX8 games run great on the NVIDIA AGP cards.
3650 DDR2 or GDDR3? Makes a big difference. My AGP 3650 DDR2 gets pretty well beat by all the G70/G71 AGP cards.
Edit: I just realized two hours after posting this reply that half of it got wiped by an internet hiccup and I didn't catch it before hitting the button, so it previously made zero sense.
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