• Apple Motion

  macbook pro with 128 of 256 VRAM?

  Posted by Johan Hoogendoorn on October 24, 2007 at 12:27 pm

  Hi,

  I’m trying to make a buying-decision between the 15 inch macbook pro with

  NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics
  128MB SDRAM

  and

  NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics
  256MB SDRAM

  other differences are 0,2 Ghz CPU-speed and $ 500,-..

  the question is: hoe much does the extra 128 mb of video ram affect the performance speed of Motion 3?

  of course I want the app to run ‘as realtime as possible’

  anyone a clue?

  jochem

  Scott replied 18 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Scott

  October 26, 2007 at 9:07 am

  There will certanly come a point that the amount of layers you have going will affect preview rendering speed, especially if there is alot of memory swapping because of low Vram.

  I think this falls in the “as much as possible” category. If you can afford the extra $500, definitly do it.

  PS, I am biased, I just got the MacbookPro with 256. I couldn’t imagine using aything less.
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  Tangier Clarke

  November 7, 2007 at 9:01 pm

  Hi Jocem. Just something to consider (though it may not matter much for your situation). I just posted yesterday an interesting problem. My ATI X1800XT card with 256 MB RAM in my G5 can’t seem to hold a candle to my MacBook Pro’s 128 MB video card. This is absurd and very upsetting, but true. I get errors and weird breakups if I try to open a Motion 3 project i did on my MBP on my G5, yet the ATI has twice the vide memory. Particularly with images over 2048×2048 – with both machines having the same settings in motion as well as preferences set exactly. The MBP gives me no errors and performs much better than my Dual 2 GHz G5.

  Tangier
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  Scott

  November 13, 2007 at 7:12 pm

  That is an excellent point Tangier,

  The newer video cards have a lot more power.

  Again, I think it comes down to how much you can afford. Buy the best you can now.

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