Leadtek WinFast PxVC1100 MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding Card

http://www.cdrlabs.com/Reviews/leadtek-winfast-pxvc1100-mpeg-2h264-transcoding-card.html

hope you noticed

128MB of dedicated XDR DRAM memory

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yummy, to bad they havent used XDR memory on video cards...

wow that thing's quick. Wish it supported 2 pass encoding. I also wish they'd compared it to a fast i7 rather than C2Q, but it looks like it's still going to be faster than i7 at encoding.

TimoneX said:

wow that thing's quick. Wish it supported 2 pass encoding. I also wish they'd compared it to a fast i7 rather than C2Q, but it looks like it's still going to be faster than i7 at encoding.

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well what roughly had 30% to the numbers of the C2Q and you have about where the i7 would perform. though nothing is still as good as actually benching a i7 vs the card. i just found the review interesting for the use of XDR ram and it being a standalone transcoder. last time i saw one was back when Mpeg2 was the rage.

So, this looks pretty good. Real-time H264 encoding seems doable.

Just to make sure, an I5-750 can't do real time encoding can it?

Kasm said:

So, this looks pretty good. Real-time H264 encoding seems doable.

Just to make sure, an I5-750 can't do real time encoding can it?

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cpu is the jack of all trades, it can do many things but being mediocre at it. it takes specialized hardware to be able to things in real-time. either that or your gonna need more cpus/cores to try to do it in realtime.