Digital Home Thoughts: Rock'em Sock'em GPGPUs at PC Perspective

"Today, we are going to discuss both of these technologies as well as benchmark a couple video transcoding applications from Cyberlink that support both CUDA and ATI Stream platforms. We will also take a brief look at ATI's Avivo video converter to see what ATI's own free software has to offer."

With AMD's recent release of an x86 compatible SDK for OpenCL, it is only fitting to see someone pit the two GPGPU platforms against each other to see if either provides a significant advantage. Both platforms perform admirably, and the most important thing to take away from the article is that if you do a lot of rendering or transcoding, investing in a GPGPU can save you buckets of time, freeing your computer up for more important things like posting tweets or playing Music Catch.