I stand embarrassingly corrected. My card is a 32MB Radeon 7500. I can't imagine that it makes much difference at the bottom-of-the-barrel. Needless to say, any upgrade will make a ridiculous amount of difference.
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I stand embarrassingly corrected. My card is a 32MB Radeon 7500. I can't imagine that it makes much difference at the bottom-of-the-barrel. Needless to say, any upgrade will make a ridiculous amount of difference.
I'm afraid you might actually see a performance DROP if your'e switching from an eMac with 64 megs of VRAM and going to a macbook.
You better get the iMac, otherwise I will be very disappointed in you.
Patience, young grasshopper. If you're lucky the next revision of iMac's might support a card with 512 megs of VRAM.
And btw, as people have said, don't get your ram from apple. GET IT FROM DEALRAM.COM
You better get the iMac, otherwise I will be very disappointed in you.
Patience, young grasshopper. If you're lucky the next revision of iMac's might support a card with 512 megs of VRAM.
And btw, as people have said, don't get your ram from apple. GET IT FROM DEALRAM.COM
Its not like 512 MB will improve performance
For WoW? probably not.
But for the FUTURE it might. THINK OF THE FUTURE.
My Rev A iMac has 256 megs of VRAM. Sure, it wasn't the DEFAULT configuration, but do you want the same amount of VRAM that my Rev A has? Don't you wanna say "my iMac has more VRAM than the Rev A iMac's had".
I bet you do.
lol you sure like how huuuge your e-penis is
No, for ANY game having extra 256 VRAM in iMac's card will not make a difference of more than 1%. See benchmarks of Penryn MBPs with 512 MB vs SR with 256. No difference. And thats on even faster card than iMac has.
I'd take GeForce 8800 with 128 MB over Radeon 2600 with 1 GB any day...
Yeah, I am not getting the MacBook. iMac it is, now just to wait. (I fully intend on maxing out my RAM via after-market).
At this point I am fairly convinced that the current 24" iMac will do everything I want. I am merely waiting for the revision so I am not paying full-price for a 250 day old machine. Since it is fairly well understood that we should see the HDD get a modest bump, I won't complain about waiting for that, either.
lol you sure like how huuuge your e-penis is
No, for ANY game having extra 256 VRAM in iMac's card will not make a difference of more than 1%. See benchmarks of Penryn MBPs with 512 MB vs SR with 256. No difference. And thats on even faster card than iMac has.
I'd take GeForce 8800 with 128 MB over Radeon 2600 with 1 GB any day...
Surely it depends on the game though... right?
For example, I know that Quake 4 specifically gives you a warning if you try to enable "ULTRA high" video settings along the lines of "This setting requires at least 512 MB of Video RAM. Are you sure you want to continue?"
Also, I remember reading that the super awesome sounding "MEGA TEXTURE" technology used in Quake Wars required 256 megs of VRAM to work well.
Didnt play QW, but I played Doom 3 on Core 2 Duo 2 GHz iMac with Radeon X1600 128MB at ULTRA settings and it was smooth all the time.
Some games can give you warnings, but in reality it doesnt go beyond that.
But the problem of sticking extra 256 MB VRAM into current iMac's card is its memory bandwidth which is just too narrow to effectively use more than 256MB, just like on MBP's cards. The card isnt just fast enough to use all those megabytes.