On 12 Aug 2006, at 4:59 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Tyler is telling you that he's demonstrated that the graphics card on Windows *does* greatly affect 2D operations. You continue to deny it, but that's what his experiment has shown.
No, Tyler's experiment has shown that the settings on that slider greatly affect 2D performance on his specific computers (both of which are budget video cards using 3-4 year-old chipsets). Tyler may be right that his video cards are underpowered for his computers.
Anyway, I regret getting bogged down in that issue because it doesn't actually have much to do with my central point, which was that adding a faster video card to the *Mac Pro* probably won't significantly improve 2D performance -- in either Mac OS X or WinXP.
For me, everything you've written has been very confusing. When you provide citations of articles that show the way OS X works, it is to show how much the CPU is involved.
Quite the opposite -- did you even read those articles? They talk about how OS X 10.4 uses the Mac's graphics card more heavily than before (much like Vista will). However, today's video cards are so powerful that even the additional 2D demands of OS X are easily handled by any card currently on the market.
And you have minimized the main point, which is the only reason he brought up the issue of 2D drawing and graphics cards, which was that investing in the graphics card gives more bang for the buck for application performance *in Finale* than adding processor cores. I don't think you've contested that point (just minimized its importance)
No, I absolutely contest that point. Adding an additional core or additional processor may not improve Finale performance much on Windows, but I *also* think it's unlikely that upgrading the Mac Pro a more powerful graphics card than the nVidia 7300 GT would make much of a difference to 2D performance on that machine.
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