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The 15.6-inch wide-screen display offers a 1,366×768 native resolution, which isn’t enough for full 1080p HD video, but still standard for a screen this size in its class. It’s not the sharpest display and colors are a little washed out, but overall it’s serviceable and gets adequately bright. Plus, it’s a backlit LED screen, which might be partially responsible for the laptop’s good Dell Latitude D620 battery life.
The fourth and still somewhat rarefied memory technology is GDDR5. GDDR5 actually runs at a quadruple data rate instead of double like the other memory technologies, and can produce mountains of bandwidth. The use of GDDR5 almost effectively works as a jump in memory bus width. GDDR5 used on a 128-bit bus can produce memory bandwidth comparable to a 256-bit bus, and on a 256-bit bus can produce staggering bandwidth comparable to a 512-bit bus! As someone who actually has a desktop card using GDDR5,Toshiba PA3399U-1BRS battery, I can say it works pretty much as advertised; when tweaking the clock speeds on my graphics card, the memory speed is almost never the bottleneck.
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