Basically the later is the display without a microprocessor. The Sparcfun has a micro processor to handle the dirty work, and you can communicate with it via a Serial line, i2c (which can be shared with other i2c devices), or hardware spi.
Basically the later is the display without a microprocessor. The Sparcfun has a micro processor to handle the dirty work, and you can communicate with it via a Serial line, i2c (which can be shared with other i2c devices), or hardware spi.