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- ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Great.. So my X800 XL is useless for this."
It's a hardware based tech. This is like them saying "hey you can now burn DVD discs", and you saying "great, so my CDRW is useless for this" - TheQwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2how long before apple sues them for using the name "XCode"?
- CaptainCalculus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is like them saying "hey you can now burn DVD discs", and you saying "great, so my CDRW is useless for this"
Quite possibly the best comeback I have ever heard in my life... - Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why the limitation of only X1000 series? The X1300 has LESS pixel shading power than, for example, an X850 XT.
I think this is simply forced obselescence. ATI wants to use this as a gimmick to get people to buy their new cards, even though they could probably significantly accelerate encoding on any DX9 card.
There is nothing driver or hardware specific about writing GPU-accelerated applications. Somebody needs to write a patch for ffmpeg (very popular very fast opensource video encoder) to take advantage of any DX9 card, ATI or nVidia. It'd make converting content for iPods a bit less painful. - digitalunit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great.. So my X800 XL is useless for this.
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0would have been nice to see what a chip other than the fx-57 would do to highlight the actual card. But this does seem a bit more informative than the last post i saw. i'll digg it.
- mbwilliamson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does nVidia have something similar?
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would like nVidia to take advantage of this, and hopefully license the technology to Nero :D
- geekfu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have no doubt NVIDIA will counter with a similar product given time. The allure in a 5x decrease in video encoding times is to great to ignore, for the enthusiast as well as the megacorp looking for a new angle to pitch its product.
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not special just one of the new ones, what do expect backwards compatbility? Sure my old 9100 should be able to this to eh.
- blackax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why so many nvida fan boys? and They will not beable to do this untill the next gen of cards.
- codemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was the 1000th digg :-)
- aletornw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's avivo xcode? It seems like it's not just an encoder
- Smarterdanu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Quite possibly the best comeback I have ever heard in my life..."
^^ - hax0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>Why so many nvida fan boys? and They will not beable to do this untill the next gen of cards.
Why so many ATI fans??? I won't be impressed until someone writes a program that works with pretty much any video card, Nvidia or ATI. Why next gen? I wouldn't be surprised if any geforce 4 class video card or higher would be more efficient than any P4 or Athlon XP or higher CPU. - NeilM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And... why weren't we able to accomplish this earlier? Duh.
- cool4u2view, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does it work in Linux.... and that's a no. I wonder how it would perform on a multithreaded encoder with an AMD x64 X2 4800+ and any video card.
- forever200, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** and I just bought a new video card... would have waited for this
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this is so two weeks ago
- tmanka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Old news but I'll digg it anyway
- m85476585, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What's with the „? I how do you make one?
„ - diehard2k5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0You need a special video card? Lame.
- kidlinux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Hot like a hand job!
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