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<blockquote data-quote="tourettes" data-source="post: 546272" data-attributes="member: 10858">Bascily if you are after bitstreaming the new audio formats, buy a ATi 5xxx or Nvidia and a separate (expencive!) audio card. If you are after H.264 video decoding buy a nvidia GT2xx. On video decoding side Nvidia has few pros compared to ATI:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Wider range of H.264 profiles supported on the HW decoding </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Future support for MPEG4 (divx/xvid etc) hardware decoding (those aren't as hard to decode on CPU as H.264, so I wouldn't focus on this at all)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Better compatibility with newly introduced H.264 broadcast video streams in Europe (<a href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=17472820#post17472820" target="_blank">ATI Radeon HD 5800, 5700 and 5600 Series Thread: Supporting HD Audio Bitstreaming! - Page 41 - AVS Forum</a>) - not sure if it has been already solved with latest ATI drivers (or is it even a HW issue as VPU might have some bugs)</li>
</ul>But as a summary, there is no perfect GPU (yet) available when it comes to HTPC usage. Both Nvidia and ATI have their own short comings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tourettes, post: 546272, member: 10858"] Bascily if you are after bitstreaming the new audio formats, buy a ATi 5xxx or Nvidia and a separate (expencive!) audio card. If you are after H.264 video decoding buy a nvidia GT2xx. On video decoding side Nvidia has few pros compared to ATI: [list] [*] Wider range of H.264 profiles supported on the HW decoding [*] Future support for MPEG4 (divx/xvid etc) hardware decoding (those aren't as hard to decode on CPU as H.264, so I wouldn't focus on this at all) [*] Better compatibility with newly introduced H.264 broadcast video streams in Europe ([url=http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=17472820#post17472820]ATI Radeon HD 5800, 5700 and 5600 Series Thread: Supporting HD Audio Bitstreaming! - Page 41 - AVS Forum[/url]) - not sure if it has been already solved with latest ATI drivers (or is it even a HW issue as VPU might have some bugs) [/list] But as a summary, there is no perfect GPU (yet) available when it comes to HTPC usage. Both Nvidia and ATI have their own short comings. [/QUOTE]

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