On 10/6/2014 1:24 AM, ken wrote: > > I never claimed "that SRAM is still being used", though links already > provided do mention that. yes, you did. you said.... > ... I've always insisted on video cards with static RAM. Or perhaps > your understanding of static RAM is different from what I'm talking > about. and I provided my understanding of ram, via definitions of Static vs Dynamic RAM, and asked you for an example of a laptop or chipset with static ram based graphics. you never replied to this. > I asked John for links because he made quite a few claims which asked > for substantiation or, at minimum, more investigation. my assertation about onboard graphics performance vs midrange discreet graphics was based on my own testing, and is unpublished, so I dont have any links to share with you on this. you could, I suppose, look things up on most any of the benchmarking sites, such as http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/mid_range_gpus.html and note that in 3D 'Passmark', the Intel HD4600 is nearly as fast as the Geforce GT 735M, which is a typical lower end laptop discrete graphics card. the monster high end cards are, of course, many times faster than this, for example a GT870M is 3380, about 5X faster (on a different 'high end' page on that same site). These are purely 3D benchmarks, and relate more to gaming performance than desktop. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast