WinFast HPVC1100 is world's first external SpursEngine encoder
By Darren Murph 
posted May 12th 2009 8:53AM
posted May 12th 2009 8:53AM
[Via Akihabara News]
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How does it connect to anything?
Pic looks like a render.
Looks like they forgot to put in the screws on the back, too.
Oh yeah, forgot:
First!, robotic overlords, play Crysis?, carbon nanotubes, IPhone sux, etc.
How does it connect to anything?
PCI-E port
So cant use it on a laptop?
I think its meant to be Express Card reading their website - they've got their s*t quite confused over there.
Oh nice i might get it for my laptop if it was cheap
Well, whatever it is, at least it's Silver and Black.
I guess you're saying it must suck then?
Anyone tried editing AVCHD with those cards before? is it really 5 times faster than Core i7? :/
NVM found my answer... not bad for a "laptop" editing
** One station utilized the SE1000, while the other relied solely on a 3GHz Intel Core 2 Quad CPU to transcode 1080p H.264 video to 480p. According to onlookers, the SpursEngine-based machine completed the task nearly twice as fast as the hamstrung opponent, **
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/toshibas-spursengine-chip-dominates-in-transcoding-demonstratio/
Its Twice as Fast as Quad Core 2 3.000 so it should be still little faster than Core i7 3GHZ (Since as far as i know Core i7 is not double the power of Quad 2 however its still faster than Quad 2 by 30%~ according to reviews)
Lol it seems i'm talking to myself here ;p
Does this thing work with any software like adobe premium and sony vegas? or the software needs to be optimized for it like Nvidia CUDA?
Cause if it work with anything then i wont need to upgrade my Core 2 Duo laptop and save myself a 1000$ and do all my editing even faster
So Im guessing this is a PC only device?
The PCI version was tested by a German site and the results posted over at Doom9 it was found that the quality from the video (much like all GPU video encoders) to be vastly inferior to x264.
The hardware is good but the software is terrible and requires specialized versions of the encoder apps from winfast, if the spursengine ever gets OpenCL support and so does x264 then it may be useful but till then it's a waste of time unless you don't care about quality.
I was a little disappointed after reading that too. AFAIK the software's still in beta so I'd say the jury's still out on this one yet.
A link would nice huh ;)
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp_spurs.html
oopps .. that was for the thread below
With OpenCL, CUDA and ATI Stream tech i can't see why you would want another box like this :P
Surely a GTX 285 or ATI 4890 will encode faster than a cell chip and cost a whole chunk less, laptops have their fair share of powerful GPU's too :)
FYI, CUDA can be used in conjuction with the SpursEngine.
Come on you Spurs!!!