Understanding your graphics card

[Tinman]

Understanding your 3D card specifications

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

 

[Kyubi_ZA]

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

 

[Weasley]

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

 

[James]

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

 

[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/1049/nvidia_geforce_8800gts_320mb_halving_the_memory/index7.html

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

 

[Kurike]

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

 

[GReeN_ORB]

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/1049/nvidia_geforce_8800gts_320mb_halving_the_memory/index7.html

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

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