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[nvgpu]

http://techreport.com/review/27832/tr-february-2015-system-guide/5

The GeForce GTX 960 is the most exciting option here by far. For only $200, it performs about as well as the old GTX 770, which was priced at $250 before Nvidia discontinued it. That puts the GTX 960 ahead of pretty much anything else in the same price range. On top of that, the GTX 960 is a good deal more power-efficient than the competition.

Finally, a word about the Radeon R9 280X, which is now available for around the same price as the R9 285. While the R9 280X is the faster of the two by a smidgen, it's based on older hardware that lacks FreeSync support and AMD's TrueAudio DSP. If you must have an AMD card, you'll be better off with the R9 285.

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[SimianR]

I'm not talking about video gaming here. What I'm talking about is high-level HTPC applications, which is more demanding than playing any AAA games out there. Like I asked before, what games out there are more demanding on the GPU than madVR?
I believe that's why nvgpu is talking about with all those features he mentioned.
We are talking 4K DECODING here (read your post). Even an i5 SB CPU can do 4K encoding (AVC or HEVC) on software. Now I repeat the question: Can you play the three clips I mentioned, using CPU alone, without dropping frames.
As we are talking DECODING here, in the context of nvgpu's posts, go to doom9 forums, read some threads and you will know that software decoding and GPU decoding with gives out exact same output.



You are behind the times man, nVidia has already catched up to Intel in this regard. AMD should be doing the same thing too with Carrizo. Oh BTW, Intel do not have full-bitstream 4K HEVC decoding support yet.




The answer is, people in HTPC circles. The ones that paired a $200 GPU with $10k projectors. People who will not tolerate AMD screwing up OpenCL GPU copy operations in their drivers for 14 consecutive releases.

Oh BTW, HTPC users, at least the high-end anyway, do not buy IPS displays because of their poor contrast ratio. If you think 1500:1 static contrast ratio is good, you will be laughed out from the room. It should be at least double that.

As of now, the best GPU for madVR is R9 290x with 13.12 drivers. Cannot use newer drivers because of AMD's incompetence. If 3xx GPUs comes out and the OpenCL copy operation bug isn't fixed (AMD knows about this already), HTPC users will not touch that product with a ten-foot pole.

You have to wake up to reality and see that high-end gaming is not the only best use for gaming GPUs. There are other uses for them too. High-end HTPC on 4K displays is another one of them, with madVR being more demanding to the GPU than any games (present or the future) that you will be able to name.
Now let see the first nvgpu post in this thread.
He mentioned 4 features there. The first one is about G-sync and Freesync, the next two is about video DECODING (and not encoding) and lastly, power consumption. All four of those features applies to video decoding (yes, G-sync and Freesync can be used for video playback too), while only two applies to gaming (first and last one).

He (or she) is talking about video decoding (not encoding) in the first place, and less about gaming. So let's keep the discussion related to nvgpu's posts to video decoding only.

All good points, but at the end of the day the 960 and the vast majority of NVIDIA's cards are marketed for gaming. There are a small number of purchases made for HTPC I'm sure, and if 4K decoding was an important factor then by all means the 960 might be the way to go. I think people have a hard time taking his points seriously because it would be something like if I registered the name "AMDGPU" and said purchasing a 960 was dumb because it didn't support TrueAudio :awe: (and yes.. because I know someone won't pick up on it.. that's the joke, no one is buying AMD cards for true audio).

 

[jpiniero]

http://techreport.com/review/27832/tr-february-2015-system-guide/5

RS would never accept the fact he's wrong because his pride and AMD bias would never allow him to admit it.

That system guide is a little strange. The 280X is definitely in a higher performance class than the 285 or the 960 plus you get an extra GB of ram.