Which video cards will 'cut down rendering from 28 hrs to 2 hrs'?

[c627627]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/25/nvidia-sheds-flash-light-adobe
What cards are they talking about here, is that some sort of an advantage over ATi on Adobe software only?

[don'tknow]

It's not really anything about new video cards. It's that rendering is currently done with the CPU instead of GPU, which is why it's so slow... next month, Adobe will be releasing the new CS4 with GPU rendering support, which will speed up the process by a very large margin.

I'd assume the geforce 200 series will get it from 28 down to the 2 hour mark.

[c627627]

In other words, there'll be only one software that will render faster?

...and it won't do it faster if you have ATi?

I would imagine ATi would counter if that were true...

[Kuroimaho]

ATI cards use the Stream SDK Nvidia cards use CUDA, different approach although Nvidia lets anyone use Cuda ATI, seems to do it their way and Intel will likely to do the same most likely because of architectural differences. So far Cuda does better has more software behind it, it's a bit older and seems to be more polished.
So it might happen that those who can use some of these accelerators will buy hardware for their plugin, kinda amusing.

I guess it will take some time until we see a unified GPGPU SDK, might be a part of DirectX but I hope it will be an opensource solution which might end the gamers need to buy windows, would be a day to remember.

[c627627]

Hey Kuroimaho, word this morning is that you guys will get Nehalem a week before everyone else, are you gonna buy it in about a month? :)


But can we clarify, is it true that I should buy an nVidia card for my Nehalem to get faster video rendering or not? Do you have any suggestions?

[don'tknow]

Ok, found one article that says both ati and nvidia cards can do it.

"Adobe, by the way, said that both AMD/ATI and Nvidia graphic cards will provide (OpenGL-based) acceleration, as long as a graphics card has at least 128 MB of memory."

Source: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39433/140/1/1/

That article is a beta preview of CS4 with a mid-range PC using a geforce 8500.

[c627627]

Thank you.

This obviously is a huge deal, now that it appears both video card makers can do it: is it Adobe software & only Adobe software that provides such a quantum leap or what?

[AsusLover]

Right now they're the only ones that are making improvements like that. I'm sure in the near future others will follow suit.

[don'tknow]

For now only CS4, but it's going to be implemented in Aftereffects I read somewhere... and some other video-enhancement software is being made to support CUDA http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39478/144/ which I'd assume is nvidia-only. Probably more similar software is being made to support GPU's, we'll have to wait and see if it does become widely adopted. I'm hoping it does, but you know how lame some corporations can be in trying to hinder things like that so their lame-as*es can turn more profit with the expense of severely gimping the performance on the customer's end.

So I'm not sure what will happen.

[Kuroimaho]

Hey Kuroimaho, word this morning is that you guys will get Nehalem a week before everyone else, are you gonna buy it in about a month? :)

Didn't intend to but I am getting somewhat excited about it as the release date comes closer.
We use the Intel rigs for Audio and Video work so I am more interested in GPGPU applications and a pair of 40/55nm videocards for the same price.
I am not sure whether the cooling of my zalman case would even fit on the Nehalem socket so I wait and see first.

But can we clarify, is it true that I should buy an nVidia card for my Nehalem to get faster video rendering or not? Do you have any suggestions?

With anything imaging related both makers cards should work if the applications rely Opengl or DX, for other apps it would probably be random but with NVs marketshare and the way they buy up companies looking into parallel computing they are likely to come put on top.
With the frequency we upgrade videocards I wouldn't worry about it yet.

Btw it can be seen here what kind of acceleration Nvidia guesstimates from their GPGPUs, as always with marketing take it with a pile of salt. LINK (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3374)