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Audio Processing on Your Graphics Card?
edsarkiss writes "BionicFX has announced Audio Video EXchange (AVEX), a technology that transforms real-time audio into video and performs audio effect processing on the GPU of your NVIDIA 3D video card, the latest of which are apparently capable of more than 40 gigaflops of processing power compared to less than 6 gigaflops on Intel and AMD CPUs." Another reader points out a story on Tom's Hardware.
Pretty soon my graphics card is going to do more, cost more, heat up more, be louder and use more electricity than the rest of my computer combined.
It sounds like we should buy a computer with a GPU on the motherboard and plug in an expansion card with a CPU on it.
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dude...the sound man...i can SEE it...sound and sight man, its all the same....far out man....
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Now I'm going to have to find a motherboard that I could use to play Doom3 on that supported 2 video cards
(one for video, one for sound)
These innovations are getting pricey!!!
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I didn't know a price range could be "slow."
Now let's see some video rendering on our audio cards.
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Of course it can. A price range can be slow, a processing power can be sfast, and the distance can be measured in smetres.
A GPU is typically very good at matrix processing. CPU's are more general purpose. Lunchtime, or I'd say more ;)
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I hear if you drop LSD, your brain can do the same audio to video conversion much faster than even the Nvidia graphics card can. But that's just what I heard.
Personally, I'd like to see search algorithms (perhaps data-search, perhaps even video search) move to suchc a co-processor.
Oh, I'm sure you'll be able to buy a GoogleCard(TM) for your machine in the next few years...
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Don't you know? Your FPS numbers are directly related to your penis length! Only girlie men need sub-100 FPS framerates! ;)
...and I need to go pay a ticket at the Department of Redundant Redundancy for that "FPS framerates" phrase.
Does anyone have a screenshot?
This would probably look best when viewed with a Viewsonic monitor.
>If you tried to write a word processor for the GeForce
./ is sick enough to do that. Anyone?
I bet someone out there on
If you overclock it, does that mean your mp3s all start to sound ike Alvin and the Chipmunks?
Wait - what happens to the Chipmunk mp3s?
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About 4-5 years ago there were some 3dfx commercials that had the engineer walking around the plant talking about how powerful their new processor was and how it could be used to "save the world" then over the loud speaker comes the message "Scrap that, we are going to use it for games instead.", next we see the engineers all croweded around a computer and one screams "Blow his freaking head off!"
Ad Critic used to have them before they went for profit.
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So... what are you trying to say, precisely?
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"I most likely AM so interested in myself."
But I'm pretty sure you meant First Person Shooter framerates... right?
-Dizzle
"I most likely AM so interested in myself."
FPS is technical jargon for 'First Posts Sent'.
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