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deimos wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>> Kiran Kumar Kamineni wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I want to know which card to buy among the following two.
>>>
>>>ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256mb
>>> or
>>>BFG Nvidia 6800 OC (@ 350/700) 128mb
>>
>>
>> Unless you absolutely _need_ hardware accelerated HD WMV or have some
>> specialized requirement that will benefit more from 256 MB RAM than from
>> a
>> significantly faster GPU go with the 6800. It's near the top of the
>> current generation, the 9800 is the previous generation.
>>
>
> Doesn't the VP in the 6800 have accelerated decoding for generic MPEG4,
> WM9, etc? I know several people in the Ars forums and Nvnews have
> talked about decoding HD material (VP % usage and such), so I assumed
> that meant WM9 encoded HD movies also.
There's a known issue with high definition WMV with the 6800. Not a problem
with MPEG. It works as long as you've got enough CPU power, it's just not
accelerated so utilization goes higher than for other encodings.
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