AVIVO video encoding acceleration

[akugami]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1880749,00.asp

I'm sure nVidia is working on similar technology to include in their video cards but ATI (from publicly available info) seems to be further along or at least more open about how far along they are.

I've seen good improvements in the framerates from the tests on many web sites between the X800/6800's and the X1800/7800's but one feature that would have pushed me into buying the new video cards has long been absent. While ATI promised it would be in the X1800 AVIVO cards, it seems to be only now that they are implementing the encoding functions of the X1800's. I'm assuing the decoding functions are all there though there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information on it.

The bad part seems to be that by the time this software is out for the R520 based cards we might be looking at roughly two or three months before the release of the R580 and G71/G72 video cards. If that's the case, I'll still likely wait for the next gen video cards but at least it'll give us all a good taste of what's to come outside of the usual frame rate improvements of each successive video card refresh.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Wow...I only glanced at the article, but that looks really impressive! I'm definitely interested in hardware encoding/transcoding acceleration since I do a fair amount of HDTV watching and recording these days... I hope that Nvidia comes up with something similar.

 

[crazydingo]

That's right; we're look at a minimum of 5-to-1 speed improvement over CPU transcoding speed. That's just HUGE.

Holy ****

 

[xtknight]

I'm sick of hearing about it and I want to see it.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: xtknight
I'm sick of hearing about it and I want to see it.

Good point, I wonder when this will actually appear in public drivers (and the app released). It doesn't matter too much to me at the moment though, I'm not planning on upgrading from my 6800GT until next summer anyway - so I'm just kinda watching with interest now.

 

[crazydingo]

Originally posted by: xtknight
I'm sick of hearing about it and I want to see it.

You can just cover your ears or in this case not click on this thread.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: crazydingo

Originally posted by: xtknight
I'm sick of hearing about it and I want to see it.

You can just cover your ears or in this case not click on this thread.

Just saying...I sure am excited about it (I've made threads on it)...but it better not be another PureVideo kind of thing. My educated guess is it will take another year until this stuff is usable. Honest... I've since lost all faith in these companies.

 

[Stoneburner]

I do believe i will be getting an x1800xl instead of the 7800gt now. to hell with a few frames, I can rip movies 5 times faster!!! That would be incredible. HOpefully all the regular encoding programs I use will be compatible and this won't require ATI's developed program.

Question though: I thought avivo used the GPU's regular pipelines, is it actually an added on chip? Because if it uses the GPU itself does that mean the x1800xt will be faster and encoding than the x1800xl?

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: Stoneburner
I do believe i will be getting an x1800xl instead of the 7800gt now. to hell with a few frames, I can rip movies 5 times faster!!! That would be incredible. HOpefully all the regular encoding programs I use will be compatible and this won't require ATI's developed program.

Question though: I thought avivo used the GPU's regular pipelines, is it actually an added on chip? Because if it uses the GPU itself does that mean the x1800xt will be faster and encoding than the x1800xl?

it's not a speed thing. i saw a preview/review of a x1300 doing this at 5x faster than a dualcore cpu. i think it has it's own set of transistors

 

[SH3200]

AVIVO performance on the X1300..

http://www.chip.de/artikel/c1_artikel_17670022.html