2GB ram graphics, when good?

The mac of current build, 27 inch is going to replace current computer.
These are tasks carried out
- communication: faxing, e-Mails, IM, Skype, others
- web browsing for information, news, office, financial, multimedia, knowledge setup
- text processing, spread sheet, other basic office tasks
- photos storage, basic processing, viewing
- lan's central station, lan management, other clients management
- financies, taxes in private household
- private household management
- basic photo edition: resize, change contrast/similar, vignietting
- multimedia viewing sporadically
- CAD if yes then in far future and simple one
- gaming if yes then in far future and sporadically
- movie cut/edition, if yes then in far future and not sophisticated
I wonder if 27inch mac will suffice for these tasks.
Dedicated graphics on current Windows based machine has 128MB 300MHz DDR
and is used along with SXGA - 1280x1024- resolution. We are quite satisfied with
performance/quality of that graphics.
Is it advisable to order in this case the 2GB RAM graphics when purchasing
now sleek new mac?

video memory is used for 2 things and 2 things only
1. to store the image one show on the screen how much is resolution H * resolution V * colour depth
so 1920*1080*4(32bit is 4 bytes)
so 8.29MBytes is anought video memory required to display your desktop
2. 3d games and pro 3d programs use video memory to store textures it is to blt on the polygon surfaces if textures take up more memory then the video card itself has it have to store them in system memory which mean a bit hit in performance
if the game or program does not have textures to fill up the video memory they are left empty and not used
so if you use apps and games which only use 1GB texetures your system will be as fast with 1GB as with 2GB

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