[geeks] nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 07:17:50PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:14:55 -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Am I weird that the onboard GMA950 graphics in the Mini are fine for
> > everything *I* do?  It's most all "2D" (web, terminal windows, and so
> > forth) though.  Anything requiring hardcore 3D is games, and I have a
> > Windows box for that.
> > 
> > I'm a heavy Spaces user but it works just fine..
> 
> Thinking from a position of ignorance, wouldn't using Spaces lower the
> demands on QE ? You may have enough windows open to trigger the issue,
> but as they're spread across the Spaces, there isn't enough in any one
> Space to trigger the issue.

I suspect that you are thinking that windows on another space are purged
from the GPU memory.  If they did that than switching spaces would be
rather sluggish, so I suspect that all windows stay on the GPU
regardless of what space they are showing on.