AMD Talks Phenom II, Roadmaps and More at Fall 2008 Financial Analyst Day
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 13, 2008 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
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The Graphics Update
There's nothing new about GPU architectures, but here's the short recap. GPU revenues are understandably up since last year:
Market share has gone up as well:
If you want to look at console + PC market share, AMD's GPUs look very good thanks to the Wii and Xbox 360, but this is stretching it a bit:
On December 10 AMD will release Catalyst 8.12, and alongside the normal driver updates AMD will be releasing its own GPU-accelerated H.264 transcoder. The AVIVO Video Converter (AVC) is AMD's own Badaboom-like application but for Radeon GPUs, which AMD promises will be much faster.
I'm trying to get my hands on a copy and as soon as I do I'll work on a head-to-head with the latest version of Badaboom.
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melgross - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
And what happens if Intel prevails, and AMD is no longer considered to have a license from them because of the Foundry split?If the idea of that was to give the Foundry the ability to compete for other customers, it could be a bust, and both halves will flounder.
Griswold - Friday, November 14, 2008 - link
Its not up to Intel to decide and I'm sure AMD still had the money to hire an army of licensing and patent rights seasoned lawyers to test this deal for its water tight sealings beforehand.hechacker1 - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
Intel Platform: 9.7FPS?I have a 1080p capture of Heros. Using Nero Recode (latest version) I get ~38FPS on my q6600 G0 @ 3.15GHz.
Thats to a native resolution iphone format.
I'm sure there are even faster encoders. I though ati's previous encoder was cpu based and still faster than their claim.
MadMan007 - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
It's marketing slides, what do you expect, truth or details of the testing?hechacker1 - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
And I should mention cpu ultilization hovers around %60 percent. Nero's encode doesn't do so good on that particular sample. For 720p material I get ~50-60fps with hq settings. I'm sure it can be tweaked to get more fps.JarredWalton - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
I'm pretty sure Nero Recode doesn't do H.264, which is typically about 3X slower than something like DivX, which in turn is 3X slower than straight MPEG2. I could be mistaken, but last time I used a Nero Recode it was only MPEG2.Griswold - Friday, November 14, 2008 - link
Of course Nero is capable of using H.264. They call it AVC, thats all.hechacker1 - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
It's h.264 AVC standard profile I believe for an ipod. Nero has supported this for a while now.I'm just saying there are CPU based encoders that do much better than AMD's claims. And probably with higher quality.
JarredWalton - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - link
iPod supports HD H.264!? Why? I mean, you only need a piddly 480x270 resolution or something for that display, right? I suppose if you can connect it to an HDTV via component or HDMI... but you can't. LOLGriswold - Friday, November 14, 2008 - link
Yes they all support h.264. Whats wrong with that? Its not just a HD codec, you know...