PCI(e) coprocessor?

[technovore]

My friend is in Italy for two weeks and he's doing some light video editing on some weak ass computer.
I told him that he should bring his 780 with him next time to do the rendering. He then replied that his CPU would bottleneck.

Moving his CPU is not an option(sockets), but does something like a PCI(e) coprocessor exits? for consumer grade?

[Guest]

They may on a pro level but I thought those died out in like 96

[Ryan Leech]

His gpu could do all of the processing if he uses supported programs

[Osmium]

Well the GPU is the co processor you are talking about. Just use the GPU assuming that program is able to utalize it.

[qwertywarrior]

that doesnt make any sense how the hell would his CPU bottle neck

the GPU will be doing all the work

[Victorious Secret]

 

 

Xeon Phi Coprocessor

[qwertywarrior]

 

Xeon Phi Coprocessor

yeah those are ..... expensive

[Cubit481]

My friend is in Italy for two weeks and he's doing some light video editing on some weak ass computer.

I told him that he should bring his 780 with him next time to do the rendering. He then replied that his CPU would bottleneck.

Moving his CPU is not an option(sockets), but does something like a PCI(e) coprocessor exits? for consumer grade?

Yes...Xeon Phi...

 

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/high-performance-xeon-phi-coprocessor-brief.html

[squirrl]

My friend is in Italy for two weeks and he's doing some light video editing on some weak ass computer.

I told him that he should bring his 780 with him next time to do the rendering. He then replied that his CPU would bottleneck.

Moving his CPU is not an option(sockets), but does something like a PCI(e) coprocessor exits? for consumer grade?

 

Even if there is a bottleneck it doesn't REDUCE performance. It just shows that it's working as hard as it can. 

It's light video editing, so i dont see why he can't just wait for it to render rather than spending a fortune on coprocessors which nobody really use.

[Cubit481]

that doesnt make any sense how the hell would his CPU bottle neck

the GPU will be doing all the work

The GPU will be fast enough to process the entire data fast than that the cpu can if the cpu has lower compute performance then the gpu...and cpu will take longer time to process...so during that time GPU will be sitting idle...that is what a cpu bottleneck is...

[qwertywarrior]

The GPU will be fast enough to process the entire data fast than that the cpu can if the cpu has lower compute performance then the gpu...and cpu will take longer time to process...so during that time GPU will be sitting idle...that is what a cpu bottleneck is...

i know what bottleneck is

but the GPU will be doing all the work

when it comes to media normally the GPU does all the rendering work

[Cubit481]

i know what bottleneck is

but the GPU will be doing all the work

when it comes to media normally the GPU does all the rendering work

Sure u do mate...   but when we talk about media...there is video transcoding involved...means for example u cant watch a 4k video with a phenom ii x2 550 with a even a card like GTX 660 in ur system...first of all it is gonna bottleneck the card and second the cpu cant process the 4k video so there will be high amount of lag during the playback...the gpu sure can render it but render also involves conversion of a digital description of something that can be diplayed on the screen...

[Blade of Grass]

Xeon Phi is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, BUT I don't believe they can do video rendering.

[Kyuubixchidori]

I believe it was on the WAN show, but was pretty much a PCI-mothboard? couldnt you grab one of those and his cpu? i dont know if they are in production

[SMURG]

You can actually get PCIe PCBs with LGA sockets, RAM slots and SATA ports on them. Not sure what they're for, but I've seen them in my hunt for server motherboards.

[xox]

You could rent a Xeon Φ