New video card

[Michael Miles]

On 04/13/2010 11:08 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 13 April 2010 18:50, Gene Heskett<gene.heskett at verizon.net>  wrote:
>    
>> Greets all;
>>
>> I have a PNY, PCI-e, GForce 9400 GT card still in the box.  What sort of
>> support will it have with the neauvou (sp) driver when I install F13 beta?
>>      
> You can get a basic overview of what is complete here (that is an NV50
> based card):
>
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
>
> But it changes regularly and I bet that updating the FeatureMatrix is
> not a top priority when there is development work to be done. You will
> probably get the same or more functionality to that promised in the
> FeatureMatrix.
>
> I also have an NV50 based card in my Work Desktop, and I'm interested
> in the results you get as I can't just tinker with my workstation as I
> need it to work!
>
> F13 on my Intel-based laptop hums along nicely though ;o)
>
> --
> Sam
>    
Also with nvidia proprietary drivers you get to overclock your Nvidia
These cards handle OC very well.
My 550 MHz 9400 gt is overclocked to 700MHz and handles it well

NVclock is a very useful tool to get the most out of your card

Nouveau will not support any of these added features

Cuda is a big one since the  device handles hardware decoding and with 
some software will speed up video encoding dramatically

I know Win 7 developed the cuda right into the OS to handle video 
encoding and decoding and I do not know if Fedora is following suit but 
GPU computing is the way of the future.
Nvidia 9400 gt adds 52 gflops of computational speed to the system @ 700 MHz
40 gflops at native speed

9400 gt is a low end card

nvidia 295 will blow your mind with 400 gflops added to a system and 
that is a conservative estimate