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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject: Best Video Card for AVCHD editing/viewing? |
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I used to think that the ATI HD3000's and HD4000's had this in the bag and then this CUDA thing came out.
I want to upgrade my MIL's computer from integrated graphics to an AVCHD HW accelerated vidcard for her new HF100 camcorder.
I am looking to spend less than $60 and am stuck between the following:
Nvidia 9600 GSO ~$60 (96 stream processing units)
ATI 3850 ~$60 (320 stream processing units)
ATI 4650 ~$55 (320 stream processing units)
I am gonna take a wild guess here and say that stream processing units can't be compared between designs?
Not gaming...video editing/encoding only.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Mr. Green
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
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Location: Calgary
TV/Projector: Marquee 9501LC / NEC 9PG+
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a link with exactly what you are doing... unless it's your post...
http://ask.metafilter.com/112576/Video-Card-for-AVCHD-editing
Sounds like the computer is more essential than the video card. Quad core seems to make the biggest difference.
I want an SD card HD camcorder as well and have been looking into avchd editing software as well.
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greg_mitch
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Google gave me several similar forum responses. I was looking for more first person experience here if possible. I know her CPU is fast enough andt he stuff on CUDA and HW accelerated editing makes the CPU less important since the GPU is doing a lot of the work.
Just looking for a recommendation between the ATI or Nvidia products.
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