ATI Stream
ATI Stream
In the current day and age there is more to graphics cards than just playing games. More and more non-gaming related features can and are being offloaded to the GPU. Roughly a year ago ATI introduced ATI Stream. This is a software layer that allows software developers to 'speak' with the GPU and have it process data using your graphics card. This really is the most simple & basic description I can give it. I have no idea where ATI Stream will be heading now that DirectCompute is available.
In this article (benchmark session) we'll show you a test where we utilize ATI Stream and NVIDIA CUDA to transcode videos over the GPU.
Now I'd like to point you towards one function you should all do with your GPU when it's doing nothing.
Folding@home using the ATI Radeon series 5000 GPU
Folding at home is a project where you can have your GPU or CPU (when the PC is not used) help out solving diseases, folding proteins. Over the past 12 months a lot of progress has been made between the two parties involved. And right now there is a GPU folding client available that works with Radeon 5000 series graphics processors. It is ATI Stream based, meaning that all Stream ready GPUs can start folding.
Guru3D team is ranking in the Folding@Home top 90, yes... I'm very proud of our guys crunching these numbers, especially since there are tens of thousands of other teams. The client is out, if possible please join team Guru3D and let's fold away some nasty stuff. The good thing is, you won't even notice that it's running.
Our Folding@home info can be found here:
Our Guru3D team number is 69411 and if you decide to purchase a 5000 series product, guys, promise me you'll use it to fold for us. By making this move my dear friends, there are now over 100 million GPUs available to compute the biggest mysteries in diseases and illnesses. Again, let's make Team Guru3D the biggest one available guys, join our team.
Radeon HD RV870 GPU wafer die shot
