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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 12:22:39 CDT

Rui,
  It depends on what you're planning to do within VMD. If you plan to
do much with volumetric data, then the larger video memory on the NVIDIA
card would be very beneficial. Another reason to go with the NVIDIA card
would be to take advantage of the CUDA acceleration in the next release
of VMD for MacOS X. I'm not sure what the typical graphics speed difference
is between those two cards on MacOS X, but the two items I listed above
are probably bigger factors to consider than just the difference in
pure graphics performance.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:09:32PM +0100, Joaquim Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Does anyone has experience with vmd running in a Mac Pro with ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB vs NVIDIA GeForce
> 8800 GT 512MB graphic cards? Does it worth the extra 150$/120euros going from ATI to Nvidia?
>
> Thanks,
> Rui Rodrigues 

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