Cymric wrote:
Besides, the CPUs in the AmigaOne have too little muscle to supply a modern high-performance video card with sufficient data in a given time frame. In other words: the CPU is likely going to hold the video card back, performance wise. Since you can get quite good deals on older Radea, my suggestion would be to shop wisely ;-).
I disagree.
More modern GFX cards take the load off from the CPU (and GFX card memory takes the load off from the AGP bus), therefore Radeon 8500 (with lot of memory) is minimum for me for A1 machines.
Recently I saw 350Mhz machine tested against multi Ghz machine. the 350Mhz machine (when given a good GFX card) could reach very playable framerates, even though the multi Ghz machine had more FPS. ((and I have seen several tests where the difference between AGP2x/4x/8x have been only a few FPS when all textures fit in GFX card memory))
