NVidia CUDA video application roundup

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: Keysplayr

Originally posted by: WelshBloke

Originally posted by: Keysplayr

Originally posted by: WelshBloke

Do you want to micro-manage your PC? Live in task manager to set priorities and affinities?

Why would you need to? Plenty of apps set their priority low if wanted.

How about encoding video while watching a movie. Ripping MP3's from your CD's. Running Mat-Lab, running compilers, etc. etc.

If your doing all that concurrently then you would, surely, want your computer to use all its resources.

If none of these things used much CPU utilization, why then did so many users want the cycles offloaded to the GPU?

Do users want that? Reviewers do because its an easy way to see if the GPU is doing any work, I'd think that users wouldn't care what was doing the work if it was done quickly and with quality.

If wanted. Key word.

Exactly.

They surely USED to. And there are several hundred threads to prove that going back years on these forums. You know this, and I know this. Why even ask if that's what they want? You've been on these forums long enough to know that there were many, many discussions on how well the GPU removes a workload from a CPU and how important it was to have this happen for people who multitask.

Have all of you forgotten? Selective memories? LOL. :thumbsup:

But most of those threads were the same pissing contests about 'my GPU can beat up your GPU'. Its easy to pick a 'winner' when all you are looking for is the lowest CPU utilization.

What possible advantage would you have leaving out a large proportion of your computing power when doing intensive tasks?

You mean, you can't think of a single thing? I've listed quite a few above, and that took 9 seconds. C'mon, you could do it to, if you wanted to. hehe.

What, you don't want to use the CPU in case something else needs it?

Thats your argument for not using the CPU as well as the GPU?

When I do encoding on my PC (which is not very often) I use my cpu(c2q). The app uses all my CPU but still doesnt slow anything else down. It automatically gives up priority to other apps, just about every encoding app I've used does this.

You use your computer for folding, yes? So you should understand the concept of using all your CPU cycles.

I really think your just arguing for argues sake in this thread.

 

[Keysplayr]

No. No I'm not. I've already said it would be great for the CPU to contribute all it has to the job at hand. But what about when there are job(s). I know you get this. Just don't wanna?
Cool.
I think you and I and thousands of others know how annoying it can be when you click the firefox icon on your desktop and sit there and wait for it to load because the CPU is merrily cranking out encoded video. Why not just use the GPU? It's faster, and won't lag out your system when you need it. I dunno how else to put it. So, I'm done i guess?

/peace.

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: Keysplayr
No. No I'm not. I've already said it would be great for the CPU to contribute all it has to the job at hand. But what about when there are job(s). I know you get this. Just don't wanna?
Cool.
I think you and I and thousands of others know how annoying it can be when you click the firefox icon on your desktop and sit there and wait for it to load because the CPU is merrily cranking out encoded video. Why not just use the GPU? It's faster, and won't lag out your system when you need it. I dunno how else to put it. So, I'm done i guess?

/peace.

I thought I'd addressed this already.

If your encoding app is not giving up priority to other tasks then it sucks and you need a new one.

The only time my encoding app lags my system is when its hitting the hard drive hard and something else is using it, and thats only going to get worse the faster your encoding app is.