Does the GeforceFX have VPE like GF4MX?
At the time when there were GF2 and GF2MX - the cheap MX was better in one case - Dual monitor output (TwinView then, now nView).
At the time when there were GF4Ti and GF4MX - the cheap MX was better in one case - DVD/MPEG1/2 decoding - in hardware trough the "Video Processing Engine" (VPE), BUT GF4Ti received the previous "MX-bonus": nView.
Now, I expected that GF-FX will have both nView AND VPE... and also that the future cheap NV31/34 will have some "betterness"... But I can nowhere found information (in reviews, previews, news and on nvidia's site) about the question - does GF-FX have VPE or not?
Becouse of the lack of information I would guess that it does not, but anyway it is better to hear this from a "reliable source", not from guessing...
Anyway, more compliants about GF-FX (and Radeon9700 also):
- it should not be powered trough separate connector - there are various AGP specifications: AGP 8x (up to 25W), AGP 8x Pro50 (up to 50W) and AGP 8x Pro110 (up to 110W) - so it should use one of these (and also after that there will appear many mainboards supporting it), the same applies to Radeon 9700/9500 of course. And if Radeon or Geforce require more than 110W - they SHOULD be redesigned!
- I personaly don't need Anti-Isotropic-Pipelined-Shader, so important features to add to a GPU from my point of view are:
1. integrated "hardware" MPEG4/DivX decoder
2. integrated "hardware" MPEG4/DivX encoder (usefull for TiVo/ReplayTV/WinDVR/PowerVCR)
3. integrated TV-In decoder (S-VHS/Composite) - not Tuner, just TV input
4. integrated "hardware" MPEG1/VCD and MPEG2/DVD decoder (already broadly integrated in ATI products, GF4MX)
5. integrated "hardware" MPEG1/VCD and MPEG2/DVD encoder (required for WinXP Media Center edition)
6. integrated TV-Out encoder (S-VHS/Composite), two RAMDACs, two transmitters for DVI/TFT-laptop/etc.displays for total 3 independent display outputs with possible any combination of the five internal "outputs": 2x VGA, 2x DVI, 1x TV-Out
Also, such products like >110M transistor/>75W GPUs with special power connectors and special cooling solutions (I like much more fan-less GF4MX and Radeon9000 designs) or 2-chip and 4-chip solutions (Voodoo5 5500, 6000) are not good! Currently the best PC is the TabletPC or maybe some thin-and-light laptop with 14.1" display, so becouse in TabletPC the GeforceFX can not be used this means that GeforceFX is not a good product! When NVIDIA release an nForce-chipset with GeforceFX and PowerMizer - that will be a good product and that can be used in a TabletPC or laptop, so... let's wait for 90nm, 65nm and 45nm technology and until then use GF4MX and Radeon9000 (at least the latter offers DX8.1 and will be hopefully integrated in some Radeon IGPs with DualDDR of course - as R300 has 256bit, so should Radeon IGPs be at least 128bit
At the time when there were GF2 and GF2MX - the cheap MX was better in one case - Dual monitor output (TwinView then, now nView).
At the time when there were GF4Ti and GF4MX - the cheap MX was better in one case - DVD/MPEG1/2 decoding - in hardware trough the "Video Processing Engine" (VPE), BUT GF4Ti received the previous "MX-bonus": nView.
Now, I expected that GF-FX will have both nView AND VPE... and also that the future cheap NV31/34 will have some "betterness"... But I can nowhere found information (in reviews, previews, news and on nvidia's site) about the question - does GF-FX have VPE or not?
Becouse of the lack of information I would guess that it does not, but anyway it is better to hear this from a "reliable source", not from guessing...
Anyway, more compliants about GF-FX (and Radeon9700 also):
- it should not be powered trough separate connector - there are various AGP specifications: AGP 8x (up to 25W), AGP 8x Pro50 (up to 50W) and AGP 8x Pro110 (up to 110W) - so it should use one of these (and also after that there will appear many mainboards supporting it), the same applies to Radeon 9700/9500 of course. And if Radeon or Geforce require more than 110W - they SHOULD be redesigned!
- I personaly don't need Anti-Isotropic-Pipelined-Shader, so important features to add to a GPU from my point of view are:
1. integrated "hardware" MPEG4/DivX decoder
2. integrated "hardware" MPEG4/DivX encoder (usefull for TiVo/ReplayTV/WinDVR/PowerVCR)
3. integrated TV-In decoder (S-VHS/Composite) - not Tuner, just TV input
4. integrated "hardware" MPEG1/VCD and MPEG2/DVD decoder (already broadly integrated in ATI products, GF4MX)
5. integrated "hardware" MPEG1/VCD and MPEG2/DVD encoder (required for WinXP Media Center edition)
6. integrated TV-Out encoder (S-VHS/Composite), two RAMDACs, two transmitters for DVI/TFT-laptop/etc.displays for total 3 independent display outputs with possible any combination of the five internal "outputs": 2x VGA, 2x DVI, 1x TV-Out
Also, such products like >110M transistor/>75W GPUs with special power connectors and special cooling solutions (I like much more fan-less GF4MX and Radeon9000 designs) or 2-chip and 4-chip solutions (Voodoo5 5500, 6000) are not good! Currently the best PC is the TabletPC or maybe some thin-and-light laptop with 14.1" display, so becouse in TabletPC the GeforceFX can not be used this means that GeforceFX is not a good product! When NVIDIA release an nForce-chipset with GeforceFX and PowerMizer - that will be a good product and that can be used in a TabletPC or laptop, so... let's wait for 90nm, 65nm and 45nm technology and until then use GF4MX and Radeon9000 (at least the latter offers DX8.1 and will be hopefully integrated in some Radeon IGPs with DualDDR of course - as R300 has 256bit, so should Radeon IGPs be at least 128bit
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