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256 or 512 VRam?
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not really, youtube uses cpu because the videos are flashed based, and dvds, meh it's neglible you wouldnt notice a difference between 256 and 512Mb 
You can watch YouTube videos and video DVDs on Macs with Intel integrated graphics if you want, like the 2006/7/8 MacBooks or the Mac minis or any iMac since 2006/7.
The CPU is important, the GPU is not really in use during playbacks of those kinds of video, except the displaying of it.
The CPU is important, the GPU is not really in use during playbacks of those kinds of video, except the displaying of it.
On their own its now but when you're also driving a large external or two displays it becomes so.
Which isn't true, really.
More importantly you want to look for memory bandwidth. Graphical intensive stuff like shading, lighting or anti-aliasing take up memory, the higher the memory bandwidth, the more amount of this stuff you can do at a time. Having the extra vram is only good as a buffer so the gpu doesn't have to relegate itself to much slower system ram or hdd memory if it has to.
High memory bandwidth is achieved through use of quad data rate memory (gddr5) and high bus widths, most importantly.
More importantly you want to look for memory bandwidth. Graphical intensive stuff like shading, lighting or anti-aliasing take up memory, the higher the memory bandwidth, the more amount of this stuff you can do at a time. Having the extra vram is only good as a buffer so the gpu doesn't have to relegate itself to much slower system ram or hdd memory if it has to.
High memory bandwidth is achieved through use of quad data rate memory (gddr5) and high bus widths, most importantly.