How to determine if my graphics card is good enough for final cut

[Stickydoor]

Hello,

I am using a mac book pro laptop for HD video editing on final cut Express. It's a 1.83 Ghz intel core duo with 2GB ram. I think my graphics card is causing playback issues. It is a ATY,RadeonX1600 w/ 128
MB VRAM. 128 seems kinda low. Any Ideas?

 

[radium69]

Buy a descent laptop...

 

[welshmousepk]

Yeah, that is a very underpowered GPU.

You're gonna need to upgrade. i would suggest a windows PC. save yourself some money.

 

[Kari]

if i were mean I'd post this:
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20050608

 

[jryan388]

^ jealous fool.

Anyway, like the others said, that card is better than intel junk, but still not good enough for video editing. Unfortunately, you can't [feasibly] upgrade the graphics card in a laptop. If you want better performance, you'll have to buy a new one.

P.S. the performance of a graphics card is, for the most part, not measured by the amount of vram. It is all about the number of cores in it.

 

[Kari]

^well this is mostly a pc-forum, rather than mac... or I haven't seen many apple threads around here anyways P

 

[mactronix]

No, this is the Graphics and displays forum section. There are lots of different sections.

 

[Kari]

lol that must be it then