rather odd to see them benched, but that lecture/article is for another day)okback to the topic at handyou only need roughly 32MB of RAM to display the highest res 2D image possible (2048x1536)i can not give you exact MB needs off the top of my headbut each pixel takes up a bit of spaceand the higher res, the more RAM it needsbut performance video cards need more RAM to hold textures, and other data