[linux-audio-user] Audio Processing on Your Graphics Card?

[Malcolm Baldridge]

> "BionicFX has announced Audio Video EXchange (AVEX), a technology that 
> transforms real-time audio into video and performs audio effect
> processing on the GPU of your NVIDIA 3D video card, the latest of 
> which are apparently capable of more than 40 gigaflops of processing
> power compared to less than 6 gigaflops on Intel and AMD CPUs." 

Hrm, I wouldn't call those FLOPs, since the operations aren't discrete
floating point operations under direct control.  Those graphics primitives
are extremely limited in scope to 3D transformations and various
median/anisotropic filtering "calculations".  Remember also, that destroying
information is a deliberately permitted aspect of these "calculations". 
None of the GPU operations are required to be reversible.

There are probably some operations which could be exploited for audio
purposes, but it would be very narrow in what kinds of things you could do
with them.

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