NVIDIA GeForce 8600: Full H.264 Decode Acceleration
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 27, 2007 4:34 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
The Interpreter (H.264)
Our second H.264 test is The Interpreter which we've used in the past. Although it's not nearly as stressful as Yozakura, it still eats up almost all of our Core 2 Duo CPU at peak.
The BSP engine of the 8600 proves its worth once more as average CPU utilization drops to around 20% once more.
Maximum CPU utilization is a bit higher but still less than 30%. In a reversal from Yozakura, note how the 8600 GTS now has a slightly faster CPU utilization than the 8600 GT in PowerDVD.
WinDVD 8 tells a similar story: H.264 offload is absolutely necessary for good Blu-ray/HD-DVD playback.
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kilkennycat - Friday, April 27, 2007 - link
Er, its successor-family (89xx??, G9x??) which is now well into design most likely will. Expected out before the end of 2007. Double-precision math etc for the dual role of GPU and general-purpose parallel computation. Maybe with VC1 hardware decode for the little extra icing....DigitalFreak - Friday, April 27, 2007 - link
LOL. ...and you know this how?Griswold - Saturday, April 28, 2007 - link
He doesnt know, he is just guessing/wishful thinking. :pCascavel - Friday, April 27, 2007 - link
Likewise, impressed. I think one of these will be going in my HTPC.And thanks for the review guys, first I have seen on these cards which covered this topic