Way, way more than you need. For normal (non-game) use, you basically need enough video memory to hold a full-screen image. For a 1920x1080 display, in 24-bit true colour (let's call it 32-bit pixels) that's roughly 8MB. Apart from that you might want the same again for double-buffering, some off-screen work area (especially if you have a second monitor, or a desktop area larger than your actual display), etc.
But I very much doubt if you'll use as much as 32MB of that 256MB. Not that having the extra hurts, of course. I doubt if you can find a graphics subsystem nowadays that has less than 64MB; even notebook computers seem to come with amounts of video memory far in excess of what we used to have in the high-end SGI graphics workstations (I've got 512MB in mine, and nowadays 1GB is common). On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 04:34:30PM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > Is 256 meg nvidia video ram adequate. > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
