[linux-audio-user] Re: FFT on GPU

[Loki Davison]

On 5/30/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
> Esben Stien hat gesagt: // Esben Stien wrote:
>
> > james at dis-dot-dat.net writes:
> >
> > > What does everyone think?
> >
> > It's a hobbyist solution, in my opinion. It's not a scalable general
> > solution; it's special purpose computing.
>
> I agree: The GPUs by NVidia/Ati are powerful DSP chips. But they also
> come in very expensive packages easily reaching 400 or 500 Eurodollar.
> That's more than a midlevel general purpose CPU including RAM.
>

2 6600LE Nvidia cards (SLI), 256 mb per card. AUD56 i.e 33 euro.  (how
much i paid) So 2 of them, 512 mb ram, and to really damn fast dsp
chips on a pci-e buss for 66 euro. Umm..... that beats any midlevel
cpu by so much. The cheapest amd64 chip here is the $165 AUD 939
3000+. Or you can have 2 nvidias and a amd64 dual core chip in one
machine... compare that to the cheapest smp machines.

Loki