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DPGX said:Ibenchmarks were good from what ive seen and the DSP on these cards are the only thing even close to compete w/ the XFI.
However, general-purpose microprocessors such as the Intel x86 family are not ideally suited to the numerically-intensive requirements of DSP, and during the 1980's the increasing importance of DSP led several major electronics manufacturers (such as Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and Motorola) to develop Digital Signal Processor chips - specialised microprocessors with architectures designed specifically for the types of operations required in digital signal processing
The X-Fi's core can run at two internal sampling rates, 44.1 KHz and 48 KHz, although it will only run at 44.1KHz in Creation mode, and if you specifically tell it to do so
With the Audigy 2 this operation was carried out by a Cirrus Logic CS8420 chip
Caching in audio processing is hugely important, because audio, like video is a real-time data type. And unlike 3D, where cache misses result in a lower frame rate, cache misses in audio can lead to snaps, crackles, pops and even possibly application crashes if samples can't be accessed fast enough
HSE said:Moving to your next statement, the percentage of transistors that a chip uses for certain tasks is not indicative of its computational power
alg7_munif said:I don't understand why people said that X-Fi has a better hardware acceleration in games. I'm not an electronical engineer but after a quick reading in the internet I think that I've got a better picture about the sound chip thing but I might be wrong.
It says that it is cheaper to design and build a single chip microprocessor that will only do specific tasks than building a multipurpose processor(the CPU).
The X-Fi has a powerful EMU20K1 sound chip only because it needs it, the Digital Signal Processing only needs about 11% of the chip capabilities but 70% of the chip capabilities is used for Sample Rate Conversion because its DSP can only work with a 48KHz sample rate according to this. The X-Fi's DSP can also work with 44.1KHz but only in creation mode.
Creative's EMU20K1 can only do up to 96K/24bit if more than 2 channels are used and the X-Fi came with an onboard RAM because it needs it
I think that the C-Media CMI-8788 Oxygen HD(on my X-Meridian) is a more powerful chip than the EMU20K1. I don't know how the CMI-8788 work, either it can work with variable
The CMI-8788 actually support 10-channel 192KHz/32bit(Auzentech only states 24bit) output, 8-channels are used with analogue and 2-channels with SPDIF.
According to the datasheet all the Dolby features are software features, that's why people are getting lower fps only when DD/DTS encoding is turned on.
Bei analoger Ausgabe kostet die Berechnung des Sounds durch fehlende EAX Hardware-Beschleunigung etwa 300MHz CPU-Leistung (beim verwendeten Pentium 4). Die DTS Enkodierung schlägt mit weiteren rund 250MHz zu Buche
Can you prove this? From what I've read from the datasheet under the hardware feature:MixBar said:The CMI8788 has no possibilities of a SRC. This architecture does SRC calc on on the CPU.
All I²S I/O pairs support 32-Bit PCM data transfer and adjustable sample rate (up to 192KHz)
alg7_munif said:The voice mixing is done by the CMI8788, it also can handle up to 128 voices.
Can you prove this? From what I've read from the datasheet under the hardware feature:
Cmedia Website on the 8788 said:Software Features:
DTS® Interactive ¡V a real-time 5.1encoder that takes any 2 or more channel and encodes it into DTS bit stream.
DTS® NeoPC - an up mix matrix that turns any 2 channel audio into 7.1 surround sound
Independent Dolby® Digital Live (AC-3) 5.1 real-time encoding bit-stream to facilitate the connection with CE AV receiver
Dolby® Pro-Logic IIx surround processor spreading stereo audio into 7.1 channel surround sounds
Renowned Dolby® Headphone technology conveying 5.1 surround or 3D gaming sounds over stereo headphones
Latest Dolby® Virtual Speaker solution bringing amazing virtual surround sound fields via general two speakers
C-Media FlexBass ¡V LFE channel crossover frequency set-able from range 50 to 250Hz; large speaker selectable
C-Media Magic Voice popular feature for disguising your tone in online chatting
C-Media Xear 3D 7.1 Virtual Speaker shifter technology
C-Media unique Karaoke functions: Microphone Echo, Key-Shifting
27 global reverberation environments
Supports most industrial standards of PC 3D sound for gaming, including EAX 1.0&2.0, A3D 1.0, and DirectSound
Support 7.1 CH digital audio playback for WinXP 64, WinXP ,Win2000 (Microsoft® DirectX V.9.0 above is required)
ASIO2 Function Support
Linux driver available (w/o Dolby®/DTS® and other DSP technologies)