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How much video memory does your graphics card have?

Sep 13, 2006 9:52AM PDT

How much video memory does your graphics card have (and what type)?

8MB or less (are you serious?)
16MB
32MB
64MB
128MB
256MB
512MB
1GB or more (really?! what type?)
I don't know

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Basic... yes outdated... no
Sep 27, 2006 2:02AM PDT

Might be worth upgrading soon, x800s are fantasic value.

I upgraded my old PC to a 128mb x800 and a Sempron for as little as

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512Mb
Sep 15, 2006 7:56AM PDT

512Mb on a GeForce 7900GTX; although as a previous poster said- graphics memory is a seriously misleading attribute to rate a cards quality by.

Personally I look at the memory capacity *after* examining the graphical processor and chipset specifications.

For example, my last graphics card was a GeForce 6600GT- which generally could be bought in two flavours- a 128Mb card or a 256Mb card.

However, if the options were between a 6600GT 256Mb or a 6800GT with 128Mb (although I'm not sure there was such a card made, I think all 6800s came with 256 minimum) then one should opt for the faster chipset rather than the increase in memory.

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6800gl
Sep 15, 2006 8:03AM PDT

running two 6800gl 256 each on and sli I do a lot of video stuff "news" rendering could be faster over 41mins but to go the expence of say 7900gl x 2 yet
prices are comming down however they'll come down more
or come out with somthing better,
in a year by that time I may redo it all motherboard processor everything now running 2 250 gigs hard drives I'd like to go to 3 500gigs hard drives
maybe windows 64x
the only way is bigger and better I rebuild every two years this the frist year on this dell xps 600
I'm using studio 10 and pennical no doubt will have somthing better
gamers would no doubt think this is a waste I do no gaming just video for TV.
have a great day.

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Why so much memory?
Sep 15, 2006 8:16AM PDT

I have a GeForce 6800 with 512 MB ram. I know that ram is mostly used to store texture maps in video games. Bitmap graphics are memory intensive.

In a non-video gaming environment, what is that ram used for? Someone told me that various application windows are stored in the video card for ease of switching to and fro. I still don't see it needing that much ram unless using Photoshop and the video car stores all the bitmapped graphics in each of its windows.

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not much difference
Sep 27, 2006 4:26AM PDT

however in my case my videos would render faster.
I no its a silly reason for the expence .
unless your making 10-12 dvd's in one day instead of all weekend i'm sure some might question that on rendering speed but there is a difference,

and dvd quality is somewhat improved I won't make a change until next year when I do a complete rebuild .
thank you.

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1 GB
Sep 15, 2006 8:19AM PDT

1 GB (2 X 512 MB because of the Dual GPU) on the NVidia 7950GX2.Amazing gameplay, blazing fast framerates, once you see 3D rendering on a PC , console HD gaming somehow doesn't quite measure up Happy. Don't know how much the memory helps but it sure doesn't hurt.

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(NT) (NT) ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
Sep 15, 2006 9:13AM PDT
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1 GB
Sep 15, 2006 11:04AM PDT

I have the(2 X 512 MB because of the Dual GPU) on the NVidia 7950GX2, new E6600, 2GB mem 800hz, dual 250's and 23" Olevia. The tv as a monitor is ok for only games, but wow, playing Halo is like being there!
dave

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ATI FireGL
Sep 15, 2006 11:45AM PDT

I'm a graphic design hobbyist and I'm learning to use Maya right now, so having a good workstation card is very important. I use the ATI FireGL V7350 with 1GB of VRAM. This amount of memory may sound like overkill, but if anyone who has ever tried graphic design, they know that depending on the CPU for rendering is a headache especially when the number of polygons reaches into the millions and that graphics RAM actually is used well. These programs are heavily dependant of vertex shaders, so those gaming cards are not ideal. In fact, the workstation card despite clocked slower than gaming cards, the workstation cards run Maya [and the like] much faster.

The card is not very good for gaming, as it is an OpenGL card (all workstation cards are OpenGL).

My laptop a Lenovo T60p has a FireGL V5200. Its not ask fast as the V7350 and it has only 256 MB, but likewise to its desktop workstation sibling, it runs Maya [and the like] a lot faster than other cards.

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How much video memory does your graphics card have?
Sep 15, 2006 12:07PM PDT

My Dell XPS 400 has a ATI Technologies Inc. Radeon X600 with 256MB HyperMemory.

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Video Card
Sep 15, 2006 12:11PM PDT

I am using an Nvidia FX5700LE 256 MB, on Vista RC1 and it seems to handle it very well

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PNY GeForce 7300 GS with 256 megabytes of VRAM.
Sep 15, 2006 1:48PM PDT

I have a Dell OptiPlex GX620, and my graphics card is a PNY GeForce 7300 GS with 256 megabytes of video memory. Although this computer was not made and sold for video gaming, and I mainly use it for business applications, it does run modern games very well, especially at my monitor's resolution. Of course my monitor is a Compaq Business Series 15" flat CRT, and its maximum resolution is 1024 x 768, but I usually run it at 800 x 600.

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laptop graphic card
Sep 15, 2006 3:22PM PDT

I have the nVidia GeForce Go 7900 (512MB!)
got it with my toshiba satellite p100 laptop
does any other laptop users here have powerful graphic cards on their laptops? how has the experience been of having such power on the go? I'm a heavy gamer, and having a laptop with such a graphic card makes going to LAN parties a lot easier, don't have to carry around a hige tower, screen, keyboard... I just take the laptop and mouse.

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graphics card
Sep 15, 2006 4:03PM PDT

i use a ATI radeon 9600 Pro AGP with 256 mb RAM

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VIDEO CARD
Sep 15, 2006 9:11PM PDT

I upgraded recently to a Inno3D GeForce 6200 256MB video card. I love games and have quite a few, from arcade to 3-D (including all versions of Civilization, Age of Empires, Rise of Nations/Legions, Axis & Allies, Combat Flight Simulators and Silent Hunter III). My computer is not that powerful (AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.1GHz) but I found that this card (plus an extra 1GB memory) improved screen stability compared to my original NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X 64MB video card. I also installed a more powerful 500W power supply unit to help things along. Frustrating freezing screens are thankfully a thing of the past.

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ATI or Nvedia
Sep 15, 2006 9:34PM PDT

I have now ATI Readon 9550 although it is 256 mega ddr but the Important thing is GPU, from experience in the past years I tried many Graphics cards, and I prefer Nvedia's GPUs. Nvedia produces something special you can not find in other graphic cards, and playing is more enjoyable.


Regards

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An Nvidia Geforce 32mb graphics card.
Sep 15, 2006 10:04PM PDT

iam having 32MB Nvidia GeForce2 MX card onboard. Iam using AMD Athlon XP. There is one complaint about graphics card.itz getting hanged when playing games nd it shows the problem is created by the nvidia driver nv4.mini.sys.well this is not the subject here i know.iam going 2 buy new video card having 256mb. but i dont think it will work because, my motherboard is old which supports only 4x. video cards r capable of supplying 8x. i had 512mb Ram instead 2 help myself playing games.i often gets depressed and angry when the game hangs.

Thanx to CNET for giving me the opportunity to post this.
byee

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128mb atm
Sep 15, 2006 10:52PM PDT

I've got an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB AGP card at the moment, but plan to upgrade to a 256MB PCI-E card when I upgrade my motherboard and cpu after christmas.

I don't play games, but do do alot of multitasking in graphics programs, so I'll go for a good mid-range card.

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Graphics
Sep 16, 2006 1:50AM PDT

Three computers, different configurations. Six year old Dell has an Asus V8200 AGP 4X 64MB. My workhorse has an XFX 6200 AGP 8X 256MB. The gaming machine has SLI configuration 2 XFX 6800XT 256MB each. The last two computers are home built.

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Untried as yet
Sep 16, 2006 5:28AM PDT

e-GeForce 7900 512mb (beefy sucker)

New home built for son in Iraq. I'm not the gamer, just the mom waiting for gamer son to come home after extension in Badghad to show me how well it does.

As far as I'm concerned it's gorgeous on the viewsonic at high res. :-})

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What Graphic Card am I driving?
Sep 16, 2006 5:39AM PDT

I am running Factory-Sequential ATI 1600 PRO 512MB GDDR3 PCIE (16x) Cards in CROSSFIRE MODE!

They rest on an Intel D975XBX Motherboard, populated with a Conroe Core 2 Duo X6600 (2.4GHz x 4MB x 2) CPU, and 4GB of DDR2 5300 RAM, SoundBlaster's XFi-Platinum Sound Card, and within less than a month; a foursome of 350GB SATA II Hard Drives running in RAID level 0.

With the two-drive RAID 0 subsystem, I can edit 30MB/Second Uncompressed Video at over 400 frames per second! The new array will be 300% faster!

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(NT) (NT)
Sep 16, 2006 5:58AM PDT
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512 MB, GeForce 7600 GS
Sep 16, 2006 3:00PM PDT

especially to split for 2 Monitors
- normal 1280 x 1600 Flat
- wide 1080 x 1800 flat

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Pre installed or Upgraded?
Sep 16, 2006 6:25PM PDT

I was expecting that people with 64 with get the most percentage. But the majority had 265. I've been tracking a lot of online shops in the US or other markets and I don't see a lot of preinstalled 265 memory.
Are most of you guys upgrading? what for ? games or other graphic software?
Just a thought ..!

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video memory
Sep 16, 2006 11:50PM PDT

I am a keen flightsimmer and enjoy PC games, especially war games such as Call of Duty, Blackhawk Down, and Blood Brother or first person shooters such as Swat and Breed. My video card is a Radeon X550, with a graphics memory of 512MB.

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memory graphic card
Sep 17, 2006 7:21PM PDT

mine is a ati radeon x600 and has 256mb of memory but soon i am upgrading to a gig

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2
Sep 17, 2006 9:12PM PDT

2mb

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128 MB GDDR3
Sep 18, 2006 5:20AM PDT

6600 GT

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How much video memory
Sep 18, 2006 8:51AM PDT

I have 128 MG ATI Mobility Radeon X700. Running on System that has 2GB.

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ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 AGP w/256MB 400MHz DDR SGRAM/SDRAM
Sep 18, 2006 10:21AM PDT

And it's working out pretty well.....