News: Faster Transcoding with ATI cards

[happygareth]

This news piece looks very interesting.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1880668,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

Wouldn't you just know I have a Nvidia card.

[edDV]

These are next gen ATI cards.

[ronnylov]

These are next gen ATI cards.

It is the latest current generation of ATI cards.
They are available to buy now, like this one (currently 6 in stock):
http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?sku=313869&cks=PRL

I have bought a dual core CPU and use a low end old Nvidia card, Geforce2MX...

I wonder how the cheaper latest gen ATI cards perform, like the X1300?
Maybe there are a sweet spot somewhere what to buy if and when this will be supported by "real" encoding software. I guess nVidia will release something similar if this becomes popular.

[edDV]

Unless you are a developer, I see no reason to run out an buy this card for its video capabilities. It does show what will be in all next generation designs.

Promo piece on h.264 decoding
http://www.ati.com/products/pdf/H264_Brochure.pdf

There's a little description on page 7-8 here.
http://www.ati.com/products/radeonx1k/whitepapers/X1000_Family_Technology_Overview_Whitepaper.pdf