What effects 2d performace?

[Bikerbob]

Is there information anywhere on what factors effect 2d performace per Performace Test?

I have older MB ASUS m3A - running AM2 slot - I notice MANY if not all AM2 boards seem to have poor 2d performance.

When i compare results between same board.. they are about the same.. when same Socket type they vary, but not much different.

Move over to a Intel chipset and WOW - huge difference.

Looking to upgrade my system. just bits and bobs.. because of lack of funds.. but 2d performace.. where will I really notice the difference? browsing the web? refreshes?? Im assuming this is just eye candy? since I am not using massive redraw software??

James

[David (PassMark)]

You'll notice the 2D performance for things like dragging windows around the screen, resizing windows, scrolling complex web pages, vector graphic editing (e.g. Adobe illustrator), photo editing on large images, scrolling a complex Word document, etc..

Factors that effect the 2D performance are,
- CPU. One would imagine that the video card was more important, but in fact the CPU plays a large part, as many operations are not accelerated by the hardware.
- The device driver
- The operating system (Windows XP actually had more hardware acceleration than later versions of Windows).
- The video card.
- The settings selected in Windows. (e.g. The vista aero desktop scheme).
- Video settings e.g. colour depth, resolution & DPI effect the number of pixels that need to be moved around.