Soldato
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I'm currently in the market for a new graphics card (I have a thread on it), and am trying to convince myself of reasons why I should buy bigger and better than what I probably should.
That made me wonder, what can graphics cards or more specifically their GPUs do to make buying a faster card a good prospect?
I hope this thread will be useful for everyone and as people come up with ideas (useful ones please, not using the box as a doorstop or cat den) I'll update the OP.
1. Video encoding
Nvidia cards can use Badaboom software to use the power of the GPU to significantly increase the speed of recoding video from one format to another, it's especially useful for recording HD footage to smaller files for Youtube etc.
I'm not sure what the quality of the encoder is like though...does anyone use it?
2. Folding at home
I believe GPUs can now be taken advantage of for complex calculations for medical (or alien!) research.
3...
I'm a bit stuck...can anyone tell me what else they can be used for? I did think of Adobe product acceleration but I think that's the Quadro cards only.
That made me wonder, what can graphics cards or more specifically their GPUs do to make buying a faster card a good prospect?
I hope this thread will be useful for everyone and as people come up with ideas (useful ones please, not using the box as a doorstop or cat den) I'll update the OP.
1. Video encoding
Nvidia cards can use Badaboom software to use the power of the GPU to significantly increase the speed of recoding video from one format to another, it's especially useful for recording HD footage to smaller files for Youtube etc.
I'm not sure what the quality of the encoder is like though...does anyone use it?
2. Folding at home
I believe GPUs can now be taken advantage of for complex calculations for medical (or alien!) research.
3...
I'm a bit stuck...can anyone tell me what else they can be used for? I did think of Adobe product acceleration but I think that's the Quadro cards only.