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Do you use your GPU for Compute?

Besides Gaming, what do you use GPU Compute for?

  • AI

    Votes: 2,504 9.9%

  • Encoding

    Votes: 3,134 12.4%

  • Rendering

    Votes: 3,008 11.9%

  • Mining Crypto

    Votes: 791 3.1%

  • Folding/BOINC

    Votes: 762 3.0%

  • No compute, just gaming

    Votes: 14,986 59.5%
  • Total voters
    25,185
  • Poll closed .
does CAD (Computer-aided design ) count??
 
W1zzard said:
To the "encode" crowd .. what do you encode? Do you transcode only or also more complex workflows in Davinci/Premiere?
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< plex transcoding
 
Mostly software development as a learning exercise and some games when I need a break. I started with the RTX 3060 to learn about image rendering using hardware raytracing, using NVidia Optix SDX. At the beginning of last year AI software got a lot of attention, so I started learning about Stable Diffusion and large language models. I was a bit limited with language models so updated my system to include RTX 4070 and increase memory to 160GB.
My photo software (Affinity), video (DaVinci) and Blender all use GPU for compute.
 
Hardcore Games said:
The GPU was made for gaming, now they turn their back on us.
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It really wasn't. From the beginning an (semi)official goal of PC 3D hardware acceleration was to break SGI's stranglehold on the professional rendering. Initial attempts were laughable, but today SGI is a page of history.
 
No compute(that’s what a CPU is for since everyone has forgotten about that) just gaming and gaming only. If I want my GPU cook, clean, do dishes and put up studio lights, then I’ll wait for APUs as dGPUs are old money when it comes to that. Seriously, I don’t understand why Nvidia doesn’t make APUs. Just put the regular GPU and a small ass 4 core CPU for the sake of the OS and let the GPU do everything else since that’s what’s everyone is doing with GPUs nowadays. God, I sound so old but I’m in my early 30s…
 
Gooigi's Ex said:
No compute(that’s what a CPU is for since everyone has forgotten about that) just gaming and gaming only. If I want my GPU cook, clean, do dishes and put up studio lights, then I’ll wait for APUs as dGPUs are old money when it comes to that. Seriously, I don’t understand why Nvidia doesn’t make APUs. Just put the regular GPU and a small ass 4 core CPU for the sake of the OS and let the GPU do everything else since that’s what’s everyone is doing with GPUs nowadays. God, I sound so old but I’m in my early 30s…
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Nvidia has to license the IA, so they wouldn't be able to compete with Intel or AMD, the margins wouldn't be there. They have Jetson (not for PCs) and they did try to buy ARM, so there is some level of interest, but that's it.
 
A bit of AI, but mostly encoding videos for archival and rendering some basic projects for a 3D printer. Hobby stuff basically.
 
Hardware transcoding on a plex server, that counts as encoding?
 
Rendering, from assets to display in 144Hz.
 
W1zzard said:
To the "encode" crowd .. what do you encode? Do you transcode only or also more complex workflows in Davinci/Premiere?
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I stream it to a remote monitor. Basically superfast encode/decode in real time with sunshine/moonlight.
 
I'm using a Vega 10 card in a dedicated media capture build, for Encoding captured footage off a Datapath capture card.
Also, am trading another Vega 10 to a friend, for media recoding in his Server.

I am interested in AI/MI @home but, TBH "I'm not smart enough" to implement more than hand-holding 'packaged' software/application(s).
 
Dabbling in the dark arts (Stable Diffusion image generation, so "AI"). These days my GPU usage is split like 50/50 between gaming and AI/ML.

It is also the reason I'm putting the much hated RTX 4060 Ti 16GB on my wishlist. Bad value for gaming I know, but for AI/ML it's an outright godsend.
 
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