On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:01 -0500 JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did I leave anything out that is needed for nvidia on an amd64? Or > should I not expect anything more from the on board NVIDIA GeForce 6100 > even though it is running over PCI-e? >
Onboard video uses system memory. So the bandwidth to memory is limited by PCIe, HT, and two hops to the memory and back. Figure memory bandwidth around 800 MB/s to 1 GB/s tops, if nothing else is going on on the bus. Even an inexpensive 6200 with onboard memory has 4 GB/s or more. If you need the performance, get either a 6600 or wait a bit for the newer 7600. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
