Hans is better placed to tell you than I am. The most advanced Radeon card I presently own is an R200 :lol:
But I expect it'll make a significant performance difference. What would be even better would be some support for programming the shader units directly. You could probably offload the entire decode video process then.
Of course, as a long time nVidia fanboi, I'm obliged to point out that all things Radeon suck.
However, that's not actually true at all (only their linux drivers suck in my experience) and I have to say, the 79xx series has certainly caught my attention. It's kicking some serious green corner ass at OpenCL centric tasks right now. It's almost an exact transposition of the G200 v HD47xx days when it was ATI being defensive over compute performance and pointing at gaming as the primary issue.
That's quite a step up.
Must say I am loving the 7970M in this laptop
