Understanding your graphics card

Understanding your 3D card specifications

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MyGaming takes a look at the building blocks of a 3D card and how they amount to gaming performance

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Awesome write up. Will mygaming be doing a lot more these in future?

Ya was awesome and simple. I knew most of it already but if we can have more articles like this it would be super awesome

Hi guys, thanks for the positive feedback. I hope to follow up this article with some similarly themed discussions about 3D cards and what goes on under the hood :)

Often, too much importance is placed on the amount of memory on a card.

Heres a benchmark of the old 320mb 8800 vs the 640mb 8800. Only minor performance differences with double the ram.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/10...ry/index7.html

Now compare the 320mb 8800 vs the 512mb 8600.

Awesome article, very informative

could we maybe have 2 cards in the next installment as a comparison , i don't mean benchmarks and such, but just so we can see the production specs (i.e.. fabrication, gpu bandwidth, etc) of 2 different cards. I think this would be cool

thanks

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Originally Posted by Jabberwocky

Often, too much importance is placed on the amount of memory on a card.

Heres a benchmark of the old 320mb 8800 vs the 640mb 8800. Only minor performance differences with double the ram.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/10...ry/index7.html

Now compare the 320mb 8800 vs the 512mb 8600.

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The only benefit to extra memory is when you start turning AA and AF on at higher resolutions (1680X1050 and up)...