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    how much difference betweeen MBP new/old video cards?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by TGeorge824, Feb 26, 2008.

  1. TGeorge824

    TGeorge824 Notebook Guru

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    will that extra 512MB's make a huge difference? theyre the same cards, just more VRAM. I bought mine 2 days before the update so im just wondering.

    Edit: I meant extra 256 MB's of RAM, not and EXTRA 512MB
     
    TGeorge824, Feb 26, 2008
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  2. Chris27

    Chris27 Notebook Deity

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    well going from 128 to 256 is a huge improvement as the 8600 gt needs 256mb of memory. However, the card is going to run into other bottlenecks in a situation where 512mb of memory is necessary so there isn't going to be much improvement going from 256 to 512.
     
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    yeah the big deal is that the low end one now gets 256 megs of video ram. going to 256 to 512 isn't a big deal at all, but 128 megs of vram does bottleneck the 8600m gt.
     
    masterchef341, Feb 26, 2008
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