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Audio Processing on Your Graphics Card?

Posted by michael on from the sense-substitution dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Makes perfect sense... by hazem · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And the idea of using a specialized processor for a different purpose is not new.

    Back in 386 days, one of our professors was working on liquifaction (the ground sometimes behaves like a liquid during earthquakes). The models were very trig-intensive and took forever on a desktop. So, he wrote the simulations in Postscript and sent them to the printer where its processor could do the work much faster.