On 2/4/2009 11:47 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>
>> Advice: When you're going to shell out lots of money, do your research
>> to find out whether the product can actually do what you want.
>
> Yeah. I made the mistake of assuming that just because the product I
> bought says CUDA all over it, it would be able to do CUDA...
>

Have you actually researched CUDA?
Do you plan on using it yourself?

I've looked into it a bit, and it's not useful for anything I would want 
to do.

There actually IS a version of TMPGEnc that uses it... to run slower 
than an Intel Core 2 Quad.  Great achievement, NVidia.

OpenCL, whenever it gets released (the specs have been finalized, I 
believe) *looks* useful, just like CUDA *looks* useful (although OpenCL 
is vendor agnostic, so you've got access to a much larger installed 
base), but we have no way of knowing how fast things will run until AMD 
and NVidia get some implementations finished & shipped (hopefully later 
this year, but if they have to cut staff then maybe early next).

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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