From: Peter Olcott on
I want to understand the specification details of video
cards so that I can choose one that provides the fastest
glyph rendering.
My current guess is that memory throughput (bandwidth) is
one of the most important aspects of video card performance.
What am I missing?


From: Peter Olcott on

"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)SeeScreen.com> wrote in message
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>I want to understand the specification details of video
>cards so that I can choose one that provides the fastest
>glyph rendering.
> My current guess is that memory throughput (bandwidth) is
> one of the most important aspects of video card
> performance. What am I missing?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation#Text
Apparently text glyphs are rendered in video card hardware
with directX 10 support using Windows Presentation
Foundation. WPF can be called directly from Win32 code.