I always thought this whole GPU processing was a bunch of marketing crap with no real potential.
But today when my daugher asked me to encode a video for her iPod, i used the standard CPU encoder that got the job done in about 5min and 15sec.
Since we got a HD cam for x'mas i figured I would try this Badaboom software.
Well I was totally blown away. that GPU (CUDA) app encoded the same video in 35secs!!!!
That is insane speed. I mean, I thought this thing would give me maybe 20%-50% improvement, But 9 times the speed!?!?!
Many of you are already saying, dah!!! Well sorry I thought a software called Badaboom using "CUDA" would just be crap.
I am now going to have to find more apps that use CUDA. Somehow I have a feeling that it is a rare thing, which is a shame.
To think that I was looking at i7 for better encoding times For what? 100% improvement if that much. At what cost? A minimum of $1000.00 (mobo, cpu, ddr3).
So now my wife is all happy I spent the $450 on that stupid gaming thing , It litterally tooks days on her Pentium D 2.8GHz pc to encode the AVCHD files to something she could use. My Q6600 was not much better.
Now, we are talking much much faster.
Anyone else have this experience? Other software? Any that take advantage of multi gpus? Hell I am thinking of getting another GTX 280 now if it improves my encoding time.
But today when my daugher asked me to encode a video for her iPod, i used the standard CPU encoder that got the job done in about 5min and 15sec.
Since we got a HD cam for x'mas i figured I would try this Badaboom software.
Well I was totally blown away. that GPU (CUDA) app encoded the same video in 35secs!!!!
That is insane speed. I mean, I thought this thing would give me maybe 20%-50% improvement, But 9 times the speed!?!?!
Many of you are already saying, dah!!! Well sorry I thought a software called Badaboom using "CUDA" would just be crap.
I am now going to have to find more apps that use CUDA. Somehow I have a feeling that it is a rare thing, which is a shame.
To think that I was looking at i7 for better encoding times For what? 100% improvement if that much. At what cost? A minimum of $1000.00 (mobo, cpu, ddr3).
So now my wife is all happy I spent the $450 on that stupid gaming thing , It litterally tooks days on her Pentium D 2.8GHz pc to encode the AVCHD files to something she could use. My Q6600 was not much better.
Now, we are talking much much faster.
Anyone else have this experience? Other software? Any that take advantage of multi gpus? Hell I am thinking of getting another GTX 280 now if it improves my encoding time.