I can understand the offload on lower power CPUs where the slowdown would be significant but what about the extra watts? In a low power machine that means crappy battery life and in a decent desktop wouldnt the extra power needed to run it off the CPU make the whole process a little pointless considering the CPU wouldnt be taxed itself a huge amount anyway and all you would be doing is taking the GPU out of idle?
Yeah I think it's just a big con to get people to buy NVidia GPUs - the way it looks like they want us think of it is 'if you buy one of our cards, not only can you game but you can also significantly increase antivirus speed' or something (CUDA is proprietary and not available on ATI cards)...
I think NVIDIA is going a bit too far, it's like they're making the GPU into a second CPU!
dont worry, they will be dead in 12 months
VodkaOriginally Posted by Ephesians
What everyone needs to realise is quite how fast GPU based virus scanning can be. You could be browsing the web and your graphics card could be scanning every file on arrival between NIC and RAM before it even gets written as temporary, with no noticable overhead. It will just pull any data / files that match any virus definitons. It has to the potential of being able to stop a virus / string of malicious code ever seeing your system.
It doesn't matter how fast GPU scanning is, there are other bottlenecks you have to factor in ie HDD/Internet connection.
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