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- From: stimber@tbag.org (Scott Timberlake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 17:19:06 EST
- Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960315.6108C0.F4DF@tbag.org>
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- Ri> My Pentium has a 64 bit graphic chip (Coprocessor ?) with one meg of
- Ri> video memory. I can't get a
- Ri> straight answer on the Wintel boards, but would adding another meg of
- Ri> video memory speed up the
- Ri> screen refresh.
-
- Not one bit. All the 2nd meg does is allow you to use more colors at a
- greater resolution. With 1m, you can have 24bit color(16.7 million) at
- 640x480. With 2m, you can have 24bit at 800x600. It would also allow you
- to use the other color modes at higher resolutions, like 15bit(32,768)
- and 16bit(65,536). Unless you do lots of 24bit graphics work at HIGH
- resolutions, it's not worth it.
- Scott
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