feinicks Wrote:There are hardly any good GPU Based encoders due to the fact that it is a new field to explore. Akin to the scenario: Have water, will fish. But the fish will only come after sometime.

The current encoders don't work well with too many threads, and are also quite heavily dependent on current CPU features such as the SSEx and other instruction sets, which the GPU doesn't have, to speed up the process.

feinicks Wrote:GPU are very powerful, indeed. There is that ongoing debate about whether in the future, the GPU will replace the CPU as the complete processing unit or not. Wee have a thread here about the same.

The GPUs strength comes in parallel processing. Like that previous picture V1 posted, processing 240 threads simultaneously. (Likewise, the CPU is good at serial processing)

But some stuff simply cannot be processed parallel, and so I don't think the GPU will ever completely replace the CPU. At least not any time soon.

(This post was last modified: 17/02/2009 08:20 AM by Assassinator.)