Thursday, April 26, 2012

I have a questions about integrated video vs dedicated video?

My integrated video card can use 2 gb of my RAM

And most video cards i see use 512 mb to 1 gb of Ram

so isnt an integrated video card better?

Will an integrated video card preform the same?|||"so isnt an integrated video card better?"

While it is important to have sufficiant graphics memory in most cases the ammount of graphics memory is not the main determining factor of performance. Dedicated graphics cards will generally have faster memory, won't be competing with the processor for access to it and will almost certainly be faster at performing the actual graphics operations (which in most cases is the main thing that determines performance).



"Will an integrated video card preform the same?"

Onboard graphics usually has performance that ranges from terrible to poor depending on exactly which chipset you have. Even a cheap graphics card is likely to be an improvement.|||Both the video processor and the memory on a dedicated card will be faster that integrated video. 2GB video memory doesn't really help anything since no app uses that much.

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