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    VIDEO MEMORY

    Discussion in 'HP' started by shkj, Oct 10, 2004.

  1. shkj

    shkj Notebook Guru

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    Hi All,
    Does anyone know what the "formula"is to figure out how video memory is need for a particule resoultion to efficently run 2D applications like photoshop and video editing; example at 1920x1200x32 bit how much ram is needed to run this resolution
    Reason for asking the R3000z only can be configured with a total of 64 megs of video ram max.seems pretty in-effeciant now days ???
     
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    1920 x 1200 x (32 bits / 8 bits) = 9,216,000 bytes / 1,024 = 9MB. So, for 2D work, even 32MB would be far more than strictly necessary. You need the extra video memory for 3D work, that's about it. 2D work just isn't that stressful by current GPU standards.
     
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