Pushing The 512MB Barrier On Video Cards

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 23, 2005 @09:43AM from the ones-normal-people-can-buy-that-is dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Remeber your ancient TNT graphics card that had 16MB of memory? ATI is pushing the texture barrier by incorporating 512MB in their newest X850 video card lineup. The catch? Even ATI acknowledges there will probably be no performance benefits to bumping the memory support from 256MB to 512MB as the cards are 'intended to demonstrate the next-generation capability to gamers." An anonymous reader points out that Gainward (which sells NVidia-based graphics cards), will shortly introduce its own 512MB card, according to Hexus.net.

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Re:But what about Doom 3 by Juice2504 · 2005-02-23 09:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It is such a shame the game is a load of rubbish.
Mac Mini has a whopping 32MB video ram by geekee · 2005-02-23 11:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"Remeber your ancient TNT graphics card that had 16MB of memory?"

I remember thinking a Mac Mini is obsolete the day you buy it since, among other things, it only comes with 32MB video RAM.

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