Hello,
I'm looking into specifying hardware for running Flash projector
based kiosks. The aim is to get the best possible Flash performance
while avoiding spending
money on technology that isn't going to make any difference. Given
that the usual performance benchmarks don't really apply to Flash I
was wondering if
anyone had any particular insight or had done any tests.
At the moment I've been working on the following vague assumptions
based on my experience and reading of various reviews.
Processor speed is important, but the type of processor is as well.
Roughly speaking, Pentium Ds are the slowest per Hz, Athlons and
Pentium M's are next followed by Core 2's which are the fastest.
Dual processors or more may give you a slight increase due to the
system using the other processor for operating system tasks
but this isn't going to be much more than 10% because Flash isn't
multi threaded.
Similarly 64 bit systems may increase speed a bit as the operating
system may get a bit of an advantage but this isn't going to be much
as neither standard Windows nor Flash is 64 bit (yet).
On board memory chips usually use a shared memory architecture which
uses the system memory for graphics. This seems substantially slower
than graphics cards with their own dedicated video RAM. However,
given that Flash doesn't use 3D engines its not really worth shelling
out a lot for a really high
spec card. However adding a mid range graphics card can improve
performance. At the moment I'm using nVidia because the drivers that
come with their
cards seem to be the most reliable.
Unless your project is really huge you're not going to need much
memory over 1Gb or a particularly large or fast hard drive because
most Flash projects
can loaded into the memory at start.
I'd be interested if anyone can add to these thoughts or has
information that contradicts them.
Best wishes
Joe
Joe Cutting
Computer exhibits and installations
www.joecutting.com
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