From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <509071940711101627t1d766ccfrcb952bc2ed3aa533@mail.gmail.com> References: <20071110192411.C93835B50@mail.bitblocks.com> <509071940711101627t1d766ccfrcb952bc2ed3aa533@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:12:35 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f261abac-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHNlcEpJeHo/Fbu1wRAngZAKCVkqQetVb0aADZWqKOhx8J+ZUxqQCfUJpd edYx2kVrEY7QruhdLf2ObVY= =uCoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----