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    Cuda

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by spradhan01, Feb 26, 2009.

  1. spradhan01

    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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    What is exact work of CUDA? Does 8800m have it and what sort of advantage we can get also any link for the cuda software?
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    spradhan01, Feb 26, 2009
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    Freakish123 Notebook Consultant

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    CUDA is specifically designed for various tasks for Nvidia 8xxx series cards or better. It offers a lot of advantages over traditional CPU's for intensive processing.

    Your advantage will depend on the Algorithms and hardware for which you are trying to speed up. Sometimes CUDA will be faster and other times your CPU will be. It depends on so many factors along the way.

    A lot of 3D rendering software WILL use CUDA, but not a lot at the moment, there are 3D Sculpting Applications like "3D Coat" that already exhibit the advantages, and PhysX particle accelerators for Lightwave 3D.

    Raytracing and other intensive tasks will get their CUDA enhanced in upcoming versions. Medical Imaging and tasks similar will also gain a lot of performance. WPA password cracking is also much faster on CUDA, Encoding/Decoding videos, basically anything that is very parallelable. :)

    So unless you know what you are trying to make faster, CUDA won't do a lot for you. It's a C based language for GPU programming, so it's not going to make big difference to your everyday activities in Vista, at least not for sometime yet and games will likely stay clear of the tech for sometime, and not see much benefit.

    http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html
     
    Freakish123, Feb 26, 2009
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