>>For "* 1600x1200 up to 24-bit (1600 only)" to be true, the 1600 at least >>would have had to have more than 4 MBs of SGRAM. > >Yet it doesn't. Strange, huh?
Not so strange, at least ssuming you're right. Although 5.5 MBs of memory is required to store a 1600x1200 bitmap, the card just has to draw a portion of the image to the screen each time it refreshes memory. Cut in half, it could theoreticlly get by with 3 MBs of VRAM. With 80 ns memory, it's running way faster than the monitor's refresh rate anyway, and the card's CPU is already handling timing. Weird things happen when you draw to a monitor when it's halfway done refreshing, or so I'm told. The real question is, why the heck would a bunch of engineers designing a $3000 video card to eek every last shred of Photoshop performance out of a Quadra 950 or Powermac 8100 have done that? It's phenomenally stupid. Unfortunately, there's really not enough information on the web to verify anything, now that Radiusvintage is gone. Everymac.com is alone in stating that the Radius System 100 (A NuBus Power Mac Clone) had 8 MBs of VRAM. http://www.everymac.com/systems/radius/system/system100.html You'll probably say they're wrong, of course, but that's my point - nobody has a definitive answer. MacUser's toast, MacWorld doesn't archive stuff that old... *sigh* All anybody has is the conviction that they remember correctly. -Dave -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
