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不仅是 ETI Badaboom,TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress 宣布采用 NVIDIA CUDA 实现视频处理
Pegasys TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Video Encoder to Use NVIDIA CUDA Technology San José, CA - August 25, 2008 -
Pegasys Inc. (Ryogoku, Sumida-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Tak EBINE) todayannounced at the NVISION® 2008 visual computing conference, being heldAugust 25th to 27th in San José California, that it will use NVIDIA®CUDA™ technology to offload much of the processing required for TMPGEnc4.0 XPress from the CPU to the graphics processing unit (GPU). A betaversion of the software shows up to 446% performance increase over theCPU-only version.
What is CUDA technology?
NVIDIA's CUDA technology is the world's only C language environment forthe GPU. It enables programmers and developers to create software forquickly solving complicated computation problems using GPU multicoreparallel processing capabilities. To date, NVIDIA has shipped over 80million CUDA-enabled GeForce® 8 Series and higher GPUs, the largestinstalled base of general-purpose, parallel-computing processors evercreated. The latest generation of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs offer up to 240processor cores, compared to a maximum of the four cores found on thehighest-end CPU. Any process that can be divided into multiple elementsand run in parallel can be programmed to take advantage of the massiveprocessing potential of the GPU.
CUDA accelerates filter processing in beta version of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress
Pegasys has incorporated CUDA technology for filter processing into thenew beta version of its flagship video encoding software, TMPGEnc 4.0XPress. "In a very short time we have been able to use CUDA technologyto offload decoding onto the GPU and we look forward to working withNVIDIA to expand it to the encoding, as well. Adding GPU support intothe filter processing was the best way to see a dramatic result in arelatively short time." (Comment by Tak EBINE, CEO)
"NVIDIA CUDA technology hasalready made a substantial difference in the performance of TMPGEnc, avery popular creative video editing tool for consumers, yet we are justscratching the surface of the visual computing capabilities of NVIDIAGPUs. As Pegasys continues to offload more and more of thefunctionality to the GPU, we will see dramatic results that will be aboon for both video enthusiasts and casual home movie users looking forsimple and fast ways to edit, share, and enjoy their video," saidMichael Steele, general manager of visual consumer solutions, NVIDIA.
Test results show impressive performance gains
In the beta version, application performance has been increased by upto 446% with CUDA technology, compared to the Intel Core2Quad Q9450, atop-of-the-line CPU. This demonstrates that CUDA technology will have amajor impact on encoding speed, which requires a lot of filterprocessing.
Test System Specification | CPU | C2Q Q9450 (2.66 GHz) | Memory | 2 Gbyte | Graphic | GeForce GTX260 | OS | Windows XP SP2 | TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress | Ver.4.6.0.257 | Test Contents | Encoding HDV file (1440×1080) to MPEG2 for DVD-video format (720×480) for 3 minutes | Test 1 | De-interlacing + resizing | Test 2 | Test 1 + 2D & 3D noise reduction | Test 3 | Test 2 + sharpening edges | Test 4 | Test 3 + smartsharp | Test 5 | Test 4 + color correction | Result (Number of frames processed in 3 minutes) | Test Type | CUDA Execution (Beta) | CPU-only | CUDA acceleration | Test 1 | 2803 | 5253 | 53.36 % | Test 2 | 1377 | 1667 | 82.60 % | Test 3 | 1217 | 576 | 211.28 % | Test 4 | 993 | 224 | 443.30 % | Test 5 | 928 | 208 | 446.15 % |
Release of products with CUDA technology
Thebeta version of TMPGEnc using CUDA technology is available from Pegasysupon request. Release dates for final versions of TMPGEnc using CUDAtechnology, starting with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, have not been announced.
For more information about TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, please visit http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/ja/product/te4xp.html (Japanese) or http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html (English)
For information about CUDA please visit http://www.nvidia.co.jp/object/cuda_what_is_jp.html (Japanese) or http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html (English)
For inquiries about this release, please contact:
Pegasys, Inc.
Saito, Publicity
saito@pegasys-inc.com
5F Grace Building Ryogoku
3-21-1 Ryogoku
Sumida-ku
Tokyo 130-0026
Phone: 03-5624-1901 |
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