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To: ptanner who wrote (98597)	3/15/2000 7:56:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579065

PT, Follow-up to: <Did you notice that the [HP] Athlon 850 models are listed with a 64MB DDR Nvidia GeForce?> NVIDIA's press release follows the day after the web sighting. I still wonder if the extra memory makes much difference. A 1280 x 1024 32 bpp color buffer requires about 5MB. A 32 bpp depth buffer also requires 5 MB. Double buffered requires 20 MB for color and depth buffers. If you throw in an accumulation and stencil buffer, add another 10 MB. You are now up to almost 32 MB, and haven't even accounted for texture memory. With 32 MB of texture memory, you have eaten up 64 MB. I expect that 128 MB will be very common in the near future, because 32 MB is not enough texture memory for the games of the future. Scumbria