Video overlay - essential for fast video playback

[slayer]

GPU <-> memory bandwidth is literally in the hundreds of GB/s these days. Even my now rather old hat G200 based card can manage ~ 105GB/s for VRAM to VRAM (read-process-write) operations and that's while it's still displaying a fully composited desktop.

So what does that mean for a HD7970 in the X1000 is capable of, once it's suitably tapped?

I've gone from having no recent graphics cards to 4 x 4890s of various configurations and 1 x 4870X2 and of course the 7970!

[slayer]

Of course, as a long time nVidia fanboi, I'm obliged to point out that all things Radeon suck.

You sound like my son :hammer:

The 79xx series has certainly caught my attention. It's kicking some serious green corner ass at OpenCL centric tasks right now.

I did do a little research and it seems to have a few positive things going for it yes :pint:

That's quite a step up.

Yes, trouble with beta testing, you tend to end up with all these left overs and the cards weren't that cheap to amass. A little over the top perhaps but that's how I generally roll, it's just good to get your hands dirty and get the things you need in to help solve issues.