It is Nvidia only since it uses the built in hardware H.264 video encoder found in GTX 650 and higher cards. That's kind of the point since you're able to use the gpu for the encoding making the impact on performance minimal.
Ever since the GTX 780 launched, I've been annoyed by the throttling of my GTX 680 and, well, any Boost 1.0 card. It's stupid. I will have to hack the firmware now.
Well! More that it doesn't keep a steady boost, it's all over the place. I have reached 1202, of c, but no further.
I hacked a friends' to get it to change his card to have Boost 2.0 limitations instead. Ran much better that way.
Yea, it wasn't really an issue to me before Boost 2.0, because hey, boost is a boost. But considering that the cards have Boost 2.0 availible to them if you just poke around a bit has me a bit frowny-faced.
I'm on a reference cooler, so mine plateaus at 1202 turbo, no matter the core clock.
Reading this made me just realize that when powering on my computer, I no longer see my gpu bios flash by before moving on to the system bios. My gtx460 used to would show a screen of the year, make, and model. Was sort of annoying since it added more time to wait for the OS to load up.
That's honestly the first time I've heard of a GPU having it's own screen splash upon boot.
Imagine if every component had that. It'd feel like starting up a game for the first time and frantically spamming esc/enter to skip past all the splash intros only to find out THEY'RE UNSKIPPABLE GOD FUCKING DAMMIT :O
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