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Lupin:
--- Quote from: AceD on December 06, 2009, 11:00:09 PM ---Why are you an ATI fanboy? because Nvidia makes superior cards...its fact, and Nvidia is far more widely recognised by gaming companies to boot...even the damn H264 decoders we use to watch anime...use Nvidia cuda.
Really...people only buy ATI because there cheap (same reason you buy AMD)...i guess some people still cling to the fact ATI was ok 5 years ago :-\
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Uh no. I smell an nvidia fan boy.
ATI has superior cards right now performance and price wise. The one thing nVidia has an advantage is it's more mature drivers and gpgpu support.
AceD:
--- Quote from: zherok on December 07, 2009, 12:09:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: AceD on December 06, 2009, 11:30:22 PM ---I dunno about that, i use a pair of BFG GTX260's in SLI, had them about 1 year now roughly i think...i use CUDA all the time, and i watch 3/4 hours anime a day at least...there both still in top condition.
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SLI is probably a bit overkill for just running anime, isn't it?
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Well i do play games abit aswell, Dragon age, WoW...and stuff when i got some time :|
--- Quote from: Lupin on December 07, 2009, 08:26:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: AceD on December 06, 2009, 11:00:09 PM ---Why are you an ATI fanboy? because Nvidia makes superior cards...its fact, and Nvidia is far more widely recognised by gaming companies to boot...even the damn H264 decoders we use to watch anime...use Nvidia cuda.
Really...people only buy ATI because there cheap (same reason you buy AMD)...i guess some people still cling to the fact ATI was ok 5 years ago :-\
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Uh no. I smell an nvidia fan boy.
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Not at all, when am searching for a new gcard/s, i just pick which i think is best at the time, regardless of if its ATI or Nvidia. Although i am a fan of CUDA, yes. ;)
zherok:
--- Quote from: AceD on December 07, 2009, 09:16:33 AM ---Well i do play games abit aswell, Dragon age, WoW...and stuff when i got some time :|
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Still probably overkill for those, I suspect. At least, Dragon Age runs fine at 1600x900 on my laptop anyway. ;)
--- Quote --- Although i am a fan of CUDA, yes. ;)
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I'll admit, CUDA would be nice, although I watch so little anime I'm not sure I'd ever take advantage of it. My laptop caps at the above resolution, so 1080p media isn't really worth bothering with over 720p stuff (and it's a hell of a lot smaller.) That said it was kinda irking to see soft-subbed karaoke intros kick my machine's ass for reasons I'm not quite sure of.
With some tweaking I managed to get the AIR opening theme here working without skipping or frame dropping on my ATI using Laptop. CUDA would have helped, I'm sure, although I'm curious whether this sort of encode is very common. Again I don't really watch much anime and I have little reason to aim for the system raping 1080p blu-ray rips, but would be nice to know how easy it is to run into that sort of system stopper.
Lupin:
I find it amusing that fanboys deny that they are fanboys.
sdedalus83:
For video playback, DXVA on an ATI card is only slightly less capable than CUDA acceleration. I doubt you're using CUDA for anything more demanding than that.
Once OpenCL goes mainstream CUDA will be relegated to a few highly specialized niches. It'll be interesting to see how willing nVidia is to enable full OpenCL support on their mainstream cards because it has the potential to kill off the market for their Quadro cards. ATI has much less incentive to pull some bullshit stunt since their footprint in the professional graphics market is much, much smaller.
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