<div>Since my 8400GS card was bad out of the chute, I have been given a 2nd try at buying a video card. I'm trying to determine which card would work best for VDPAU so I can use the Advanced 2x deint option. When the 8400GS was working it couldn't handle the Advanced 1x deint option with a 1080i stream. My biggest limitation is that I'm using PCI (not PCIe), or AGP but apparently there are no VDPAU AGP cards. So I found this <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139046">9500GT at newegg</a>. Will this be enough to crunch with Advanced 2x deint?</div>
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<div>I currently have my wife's GeForce 8600 (stolen from her computer) in the mythbox and it's working fine with "High Quality" profile (CPU intensive decoding), and it looks perfect. I've looked up the specs for the 8600 that I'm currently using and the 9500GT that I'm thinking about getting:</div>
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<div>Nvidia 6800 (AGP) [works well with all decoding done on cpu]</div>
<div>- Process node: 110nm</div>
<div>- Transistors: 222 million</div>
<div>- Core speed: 325MHz</div>
<div>- Mem speed: 350MHz</div>
<div>- Mem bus width: 256-bit</div>
<div>- Memory bandwidth: 179.2Gbits/s</div>
<div> </div>Nvidia 8500GS (PCI) [worked *okay* with lighter deint options, Adv1X would stutter badly]</div>
<div>- Process node: 65nm</div>
<div>- Transistors: 210 million (?)</div>
<div>- Core speed: 567MHz</div>
<div>- Mem speed: 400MHz</div>
<div>- Mem bus width: 64-bit <- I'm thinking this is a problem</div>
<div>- Memory bandwidth: 51.2Gbits/s</div>
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<div>Nvidia 9500GT (PCI)</div>
<div>- Process node: 65nm</div>
<div>- Transistors: 314 million</div>
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<div>- Core speed: 550MHz</div>
<div>- Mem speed: 500MHz</div>
<div>- Mem bus width: 128-bit</div>
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<div>- Memory bandwidth: 128.0Gbits/s</div>
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<div>If the memory bandwidth is the problem with the 8500GS, then the 9500GT has almost what the 6800 has and it's crunching power is more substantial than the 6800. Unfortunately, there are no PCI 9500GT cards listed on <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU">the mythtv VDPAU wiki page</a>. Anyone have real world results for the PCI card avaliable at newegg?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>-Greg</div>