CUDA Cards

[solarfreak]

Just curious to see what gains people have been getting when they've enabled the CUDA on their systems.

I currently have a few very old CUDA capable GPUs lying around, but not sure if they'd make much difference.

I have noted that a GT220 made no difference to my CPU usage.

 

[bp2008]

Look at the support matrix: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix

The 600 series is as old as you can go.

NVDEC is for decoding. NVENC is for encoding, which is less useful in Blue Iris particularly as GPU-accelerated encoding is worse quality.

Anyway, Nvidia's video acceleration is extremely inefficient compared to Intel's. Where Intel's acceleration reduces overall power consumption, Nvidia's acceleration raises it a lot, so it should only be used when there is no other option.

 

[solarfreak]

Look at the support matrix: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix

The 600 series is as old as you can go.

NVDEC is for decoding. NVENC is for encoding, which is less useful in Blue Iris particularly as GPU-accelerated encoding is worse quality.

Anyway, Nvidia's video acceleration is extremely inefficient compared to Intel's. Where Intel's acceleration reduces overall power consumption, Nvidia's acceleration raises it a lot, so it should only be used when there is no other option.

Thanks for the info.