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I'm trying to decide between two 2012 iMacs. I'm buying it to run Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to edit and render 1080-720p video footage. The cheaper Mac has NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. The higher end one has, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX graphics processor with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Most importantly, is the extra GB of Vram worth it? Secondarily, is the GTX 680MX(vs. 675MX) worth it? I'm trying to keep it cheap, so unless there's a notable difference, I need to go with the first one. Thanks for the help!

mostly video memory is used to hold textures for fast blittering when one run fullscreen 3d games 2d image program and video edit programs does not really take advantage of more video memory then they need to hold the back buffer of the screen which is pretty much just horizontal amount of columns multiplied by vertical lines multiplied by 4 as in the 4 bytes used by the colours

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