Would nVidia 610m help accelerate flash videos?

Hi All,
I am not upto speed to the latest development in the GPU front. I am going to buy a budget laptop with 17" screen and Nvidia 610m GPU (like Acer Aspire AS7739G-6676). Basic pupose is to accelerate routine Windows tasks, like running flash, opening multiple browser windows (with multiple instances of flash applications) and running two monitors.

My current laptop is very old now with ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics and I was hoping nVidia 610m (with dual core i5 CPU) would give a nice boost.
Thanks.

 

The i5 by itself would be capable enough. The Nvidia 610m should be able to accelerate two H.264 videos if the flash windows are playing them (not that you would notice the difference), but nothing else as far as I know.

 

Appreciate your quick reply. I shall try to post a note when I get the laptop.

 

if you're getting a dual core i5 (with an hd 3000), there's no point in having an nvidia 610m.

 

Thanks for your reply,
I am not familiar with the difference between Intels IGP solution (HD 3000) and nVidia 610m. Does Intel's igp also accelerates flash, and is it on par with 3D performance of 610m?
Thanks.

 

What do you mean by "accelerates flash"? Do you mean does it accelerate H.264 videos that flash sometimes plays (e.g. on YouTube)? Both the GeForce and Intel GPUs can accelerate H.264 videos. I am not aware if either of them accelerate flash applications themselves.

For 3D performance, you can check here:
NVIDIA GeForce 610M - Notebookcheck.net Tech
Intel HD Graphics 3000 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

 

I have read few articles back in 2010 when adobe flash started supporting 'GPU acceleration', probably they were referring only to the video acceleration. Here are the links to those articles:

Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 beta GPU acceleration tested, documented -- Engadget

AnandTech - Adobe Enables Flash GPU Acceleration in OS X, We Test It

I looked at the benchmarks and it seems that 610m is about 10% to 20% faster than HD3000 which is not much, but I'd rather go with nVidia this time (hoping that nVidia's API might have better support with 3rd party software like Handbrake or DVDfab). Just don't want to save few dollars off the $600 laptop that I have to live with next 5 years.

 

Yeah, it seems to just be offloading of video decoding from the CPU to GPU. Both Intel and Nvidia can do that.

Regarding encoding with CUDA, I've heard that the quality isn't always the best... just fast.

 

Intel's encoding solution gets better performance and quality than nvidia's, and it's unlikely that either will be incorporated into handbrake or dvdfab any time soon. If gpgpu does happen, it probably wouldn't make a difference. Either both will work or both won't. Cuda isn't relevant to the open source community responsible for the libraries used by handbrake (not sure about dvdfab, but it's still not likely to get gpgpu encoding any time in the near / distant future)