GRAPHICS CARD, WINDOWS7 AND 2D PERFORMANCE

Graphics card manufacturer ATI has come up with the driver version 10.4(Catalyst 10.4) for it ATI Radeon 5870 which is in close competition with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and a lot is being talked about the 2D or the two dimensional performance that the two deliver but we are more interested with the 3D performance because we want a better performance in our games. However, 2D rendering is not less important when we complain about the slow performance in opening windows, folders and working with Word in Vista and Windows 7 being faster if we compare. Apart from the internal memory management of Windows 7, the graphics card installed in your computer will make a difference to the system performance in addition to the RAM present in it. In programming language jargon the Graphics Device Interface for the Application Programming Interface takes care of the “display” speed of the windows 7 and the redrawing of lines, polygons color-depth and pixels are involved in the 2D display speed.

The ATI has gained some good responses with reference to benchmark testing for 2D performance but still NVIDIA which is another giant is doing well with its GTX 480 product. These can handle high refresh rate for the screen as well which is again another factor to good 2D acceleration. Windows 7 has added a separate hardware 2D acceleration rate but with a question mark from the experts. Windows XP still competes in terms of 2D rendering speeds.

 

So we can conclude by saying that if most of your computer usage is related to office work which is related to 2D performance of the computer then go for a graphics card which offers you good 2D performance. The cards that I mentioned at the beginning of the article offer you good 3D performance as well if you are still concerned with the 3D performance factors. Windows 7(using direct X 11) should be the choice for over all system performance and for 2D performance as well since we are focusing more on the 2D performance issues. Windows XP is still good in 2D performance.