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From: joel@peora.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 16 bit cards vs 8, SHAFTED?
Summary: do 16 bit graphics cards really run faster?
Message-ID: <3778@peora.ccur.com>
Date: 27 Feb 89 17:38:45 GMT
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Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp, Orlando FL
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Another thing I'm wondering about is whether a 16 bit card card will
actually faster than 8 bit cards for most cases. I remember Steve
Gibson in a Infoworld column last year stating that. As I recall the
arguement was that since most accesses to video memory were 8 bits at
a time, the extra bandwidth was usually wasted.

In the July 88 PC Magazine they benchmarked some VGA cards. They
benchmarked the Compaq VGA card in both 8 and 16 bit mode. For most
of the tests the results were the same.
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