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To: dale_laroy who wrote (43658)	6/10/2001 1:21:17 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dale, how much bandwidth does the GPU need for normal, mostly static 2d stuff? I assume it's fairly minimal, since old PCI cards with EDO memory work fine for that, even in 16/32 bit color. If the GPU isn't rendering dynamically, and the monitor is just being refreshed out of a frame buffer, there ought to be plenty of bandwidth for the cpu to "steal". And that should cover most non-gaming PC applications, I'd guess that even most engineering crunching applications don't do that much animation.