Reviews - Pro-Clockers! PC Reviews One MegaHertz At A Time

With Windows 7 just around the corner, bringing with it DirectX 11 and most likely the wider uptake of applications that make use of a modern GPUs processing power (including within Windows 7 itself), now seems like as good a time as any to appraise some of the applications currently available on the market which make use of this power. As virtually all of these applications for the average user focus on working with video in some way, shape or form, thus our round up here will also set its sights on video editing and transcoding as the major talking point of this article.

As AMD's Stream technology is still in its infancy in terms of actual software support, we'll also be keeping our focus strictly upon applications which make use of NVIDIA's CUDA technology, employing a GeForce GTX 260 part to see just what a reasonably powerful GPU can do for the various video-related tasks we'll be laying out here compared to a high-end Intel Core i7 CPU. So, without further ado, let's start making our way through the sea of CUDA-capable applications we have before us. Elite Bastards