From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:12:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A61ADC8D-1F7C-4AC7-AC9B-037A6FBC3D45@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940711101627t1d766ccfrcb952bc2ed3aa533@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10-Nov-07, at 4:27 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote:
> The cheapest ATI card I could find on their website has 128MB of DDR.
> The lowest of NVidia's modern line comes with 256MB. Clock speeds are
> in the 400Mhz range and go up from there. You can get GPUs past the
> Ghz mark and within spitting distance of the GB mark.
>
> I think the days of small graphics cards were behind us a few years
> ago now.
> Anthony
It must be a matter of expectations - the apps I work with take that
256MB of ram, eat it for breakfast, and ask for more. The
performance implications of round trips over the bus to main memory
to swap/page are too much for me to put up with.
But then, I'm rendering substantial 3-D environments; for desktop eye-
candy, it's more than enough.
Paul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-11 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-10 2:13 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10 2:49 ` geoff
2007-11-10 3:00 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10 4:50 ` ron minnich
2007-11-10 4:55 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-10 17:31 ` ron minnich
2007-11-10 18:58 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-10 19:00 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-10 23:48 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-12 3:19 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-10 19:24 ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-10 19:46 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-10 21:20 ` john
2007-11-10 23:28 ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-11 0:27 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-11 1:12 ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2007-11-11 1:12 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-11 5:34 ` Paul Lalonde
2007-11-12 20:32 ` 3d graphics (was " Bakul Shah
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