New video card

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/13/2010 07:30 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
> 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

Have you ever use CUDA on Fedora?  If so, what apps were these?

Andrew.