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GPU Transcoding Throwdown: Elemental's Badaboom vs. AMD's Avivo Video Converter
Two applications, both running parts of their code on the GPU are now available for end users to transcode video. As of Catalyst 8.12, all AMD Radeon HD 4800 and 4600 owners get access to a free GPU accelerated video transcoder designed to compete with Elemental's Badaboom, the world's first ...
 XFX GeForce 260 GTX Review - Page 1 of 6
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GeForce Release 179
nvidia.com — Beta driver for GeForce 8M and 9M series notebook GPUs. Refer to the Products Supported tab for... the list of supported GPUs and notebooks. Some notebooks are not supported by this release. Supports NVIDIA CUDA technology . Supports NVIDIA PhysX ... (more) GeForce Release 179
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Roadmap Indicates CUDA 3.0 in Q4 2009
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GPU Transcoding Throwdown: Elemental's Badaboom vs. AMD's Avivo Video Converter
AMDZone Frontpage — Anandtech tests out the AMD Avivo and Elemental Badaboom video convertors. Our goal was to test the case where an end user may want to encode DVDs for use on their iPod, as this would allow us to more easily compare the software to Badaboom. Comparing quality comes out well in favor of NVIDIA on either the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Avivo when encoding to iPod video, so this makes any performance comparison much more difficult. We can't honestly directly compare the two software packages because of the major difference in the quality of output they generate. To further ...

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Last year, NVIDIA introduced it's CUDA development package. Existing as a stand alone download for a while, eventually CUDA was rolled in to the driver itself. Today, AMD is following suit rolling their own GPU computing package, called ATI Stream, into their Catalyst 8.12 driver. While the ...
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AMD has published the ATI Catalyst 8.12 drivers, you can get them over here . This version add supports for ATI Stream Computing technology, includes ATI AVIVO Video Converter to transcode videos and adds a noise reduction for progressive video content feature to the ATI Catalyst Control ...