5614 Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 i recently bought a graphics card which said it was a 64MB GeForce MX etc etc, i know it isnt the best one, but itll do for me, and i didnt wanna spend to much on it, so dont tell me how bad it is! but seriously, what does the 64MB stand for, like obviously its a speed, but the speed of what? what does that speed determin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 64 Mb of onboard random access memory. Generally the better the RAM, the better the performance of the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted June 4, 2004 Author Share Posted June 4, 2004 so does the RAM of a card effect the speed of the card, or how high resolution it can go or what, soz, that might seem a bit basic, i know alot about computers, but not alot about graphics cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 The way I understand it is this: the idea of the card is to take processing duties away from the CPU and motherboard RAM, so they are free to get on with running the game without the overhead of the graphical processing. The faster the chip is on the gfx card, and the bigger the gfx memory, the faster overall performance should be. I'm sure it probably affects the possible output of the card (in terms of resolution etc) but I don't know how tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossoi Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Yeah - more RAM gives better performance and higher resolution, colour depth and refresh rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 no. it involves more than just the RAM. for example a 32 MB ati radeon will outperform my 64Mb integrated graphics. if u wanna benchmark ur graphics card then download stuff like Aquamark or 3d mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted June 4, 2004 Author Share Posted June 4, 2004 no. it involves more than just the RAM. for example a 32 MB ati radeon will outperform my 64Mb integrated graphics. Aquamark or 3d mark ok fine, but what else does it depend on??? how can something half the speed outperform another twice as powerful one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 RAM is not an indicator of speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted June 4, 2004 Author Share Posted June 4, 2004 yeah i know, but what else contributes to its speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 The processor on the graphics card - when people talk about the speed of the card, they mean the speed of the processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 you can get graphics card reviews at http://www.tomshardware.com , and they go into extreme detail analysing each stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 4, 2004 Share Posted June 4, 2004 Should probably note that if you go out and buy yourself an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb, the performance increase is hardly noticiable if you go and buy the 256mb unless you're running a game with a serious amount of texture rendering at a high resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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