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.

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I think the question is:

[StarsAreAlsoFire]

Has he licensed with NVidia?

And since the answer is probably 'no':

Will NVidia sue them, buy them out, or just ignore them?

He could be whacked with the DMCA on this too. I don't forsee NVidia being that stupid, but it isn't like this will increase market share for NVidia a lot either -- although it does boost their reputation a bit, I think.

I have been wondering when this kind of thing would happen. The thought of all those cycles going to waste while running optimizations code (Linear models) has made me so sad in the past :~( Kudos to BionicFX for making it happen. Don't even want to imagine how hard it was :~)

Here's hoping NVidia will embrace and encourage this technology

Re: How about a Mac...

[charliekowalchuk]

I just noticed that there isn't an off the wall Mac comment here, and we are talking about Speed, so let me just say what hundreds of half-wits have said before..."My G5 Mac is better" and and not to mention: "with my 30" Cinema display, that means that its 30 times faster"...I win ^_^.

You wouldn't need more speed if you had my computer (its even complete with speed holes).

Oh don't mod this down

[milktoastman]

Dammit, I'm going to get a redundant mod because I didn't search for "acid" in addition to "LSD!" At least I did try not to repeat the same joke as was already posted. Go easy on me! :)