im puzzled too. piru is completely correct.
vram on videocard or zorram extension for that matter are perhaps slightly faster that a4000 onboard 16mb fast ram. except of the nature of vram the main bottleneck is zorro with its 7mb/s average throughtput (at least as mesured with voodoo3, there are z3 gfx cards that hijack that to beyond 10mb/s, but not mediator).
note that if real world usage doesnt make you notice the slownes of zorro ram its just because it barely gets used at all. as long as everything fits into accelerators own memory you will be fine. i can tell the difference, after i once forgot to fit memory bank on my csmk1 while testing some sdl ports. believe me.
im not trying to rain on the original posters parade. mediator is a cool extension as such, he will sure have fun with it, as well as with his video card allthough i would recommend voodoo3 as the only one that has 3d accelleration on 68k. there is no warp3d for radeons, and time will pass before aros wiill eventually support these.
i am though concerned about, that a fellow amiga user should be able inform himself adequately on a forum especially prior to acquiring anything rather than being told encouraging fairy tales.
