What is the most important component(s) on a video card for RTS games?

mostly when there is a lot of animations like ship battles in AoE3 or meteors in WC3 or 800 elephants in AoE2?

would it be the pixel pipelines? video card memory? processing power?|||RTS animations depend more on good dual core processor than the processor in graphics card. Go with core2duo and its performance is great. For graphics all you need to consider a 512mb graphics card with PCI express slot.