Use NVIDIA CUDA as a rendering option
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- Sparky29
Use NVIDIA CUDA as a rendering option
Photoshop is doing this with CS4. I see some video encoding software is also doing this. Seems like a natural for rendering in Proshow! GPU's now days can do some amazing things, let's harness that power!
CUDA is a developer language that allows tasks to be computed by the video card instead of the CPU. For certain types of applications the difference can be pretty amazing!
The only reason I know about it was from a project called Folding@Home. Recently the CUDA software was used to update their efforts and the new found power has been astounding, going from about 1 petaflop to around 4.5 currently. Geeks for a Cure team #84451: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... mnum=84451
This will be a big deal when CUDA capable cards get cheap enough to use in stock PC's. Currently entry level is around $40-60.
CUDA is a developer language that allows tasks to be computed by the video card instead of the CPU. For certain types of applications the difference can be pretty amazing!
The only reason I know about it was from a project called Folding@Home. Recently the CUDA software was used to update their efforts and the new found power has been astounding, going from about 1 petaflop to around 4.5 currently. Geeks for a Cure team #84451: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... mnum=84451
This will be a big deal when CUDA capable cards get cheap enough to use in stock PC's. Currently entry level is around $40-60.
- Jerry Cole
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Re: Use NVIDIA CUDA as a rendering option
Sparky29,
Are there legacy cards that can take advantage of this?
Jerry
Are there legacy cards that can take advantage of this?
Jerry
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- Sparky29
Re: Use NVIDIA CUDA as a rendering option
It only works with Nvidia cards. Has to be the 8 series or above. Example I started with a 8800GS that I paid $64 about 6 months ago.
Here is example of software company that uses CUDA to work with h264 video: www.coreavc.com
Here is example of software company that uses CUDA to work with h264 video: www.coreavc.com
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