Interesting rumor about new Nvidia encoding capabilities

[stanger89]

I don't have any money right now, so having something to wait for is a good thing

[phenixdragon]

Originally posted by SHS
Sweet! what so Sweet! about it and only thing that is Sweet! decode acceleration

I see you got the point



And as for being able to play games and record? Well I know I have an Xbox, Cube, PS2 and a computer for that, not my HTPC. It is very sweet sounding.

[Ayla]

WMV9 decoding sounds really cool. That's the only reason I'm buying a Athlon 64 and other "heavy" stuff for my HTPC. It takes a lot of CPU power to play i.e. 1080i with the current gfx cards.

[phenixdragon]

.14 was the first version I could have it work correctly, for the most part. But it is very cool. I would suggest going with a P4 with HT instead of an Athlon 64. At least for me I like to process 2 threads at a time instead of 1 for heavy load system running multiple aps.

[CanadianEh]

Here's a link to their reviews... seems like it went on the market yesterday (maybe)...

http://www.nvidia.com/page/6800_reviews.html


... so who's gonna be the first to test this one out?

[kny3twalker]

actually it does sound pretty sweet
the cards have encoding acceleration and full mpeg decoding via a on board video processor separate from the GPU
nvidia seems to made the first that is PCI express compatible
personally though I would wait for true PCI express like ATI is promsing
instead a GPU a VPU v for visual

[Maladin]

personally though I would wait for true PCI express like ATI is promsing

Then i guess you're going to wait for a PCI express system too? Can't buy 'em today.

[kny3twalker]

wait two months(this summer) and I just bought a video card over christmas so I am not in any hurry

[bgorrell]

ATI's new chip has virtually identical video capabilities to the nVidia:

"RADEON™ X800 graphics technology gives you more than just a great gaming experience. It also has sophisticated video processing, filtering and acceleration features that make multimedia applications more efficient, inspiring and fun. With VIDEOSHADER™ HD, RADEON™ X800 graphics technology takes advantage of its advanced shader processing engine for user programmable video effects, video quality enhancement, and encoding and decoding of many video standards, including MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and WMV9."

More info is on the ATI site.