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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Yes. video work. thats about it as i dont game, so 5700 XT are pretty overkill CUZ its not like i work video a lot.

    I wish i could game, but games of today are so stupid.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    opencl, compute stuff. Most of my programs can use gpu to speed up and help these days
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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Let me tell there are many applications that can use the GPU, although not going to use it 100%: video players, window compositing (Windows Aero or whatever is called these days), web browsers, MS Office, etc. I know that Adobe Lightroom can use it for various tasks too - you only know it is there because there is an option to turn it off if it does not work for you.
    I do not use the GPU for anything that is demanding other than games. Heck, I do not tend to use the home computer other than for games.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Mostly encoding video whilst streaming. Gives about a 10% hit, so i'm not really doing much streaming atm since the RTX2080 FE cant quite do that and 100+fps in warzone, but that wont be an issue with the 3080

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    Other than gaming just BOINC (MilkyWay@Home, Collatz, PrimeGrid & Einstein@Home)

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    Folding @ home. Web browsing. Once in a long while, Adobe stuff.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    i used to, but they are to slow, 2x 1070 jetstream's, and SLI has never worked on x570 boards because nVidia are to cheap to fix it, anything that uses CUDA will just make the second card stop working after a while, or be disable on boot. while both cards work fine, along with both slots running single cards without SLI, still 3x faster for encoding H.264 NVenc over H.264 CPU ( ryzen 3950x ) in handbrake

    cost to CUDA performance has never been worth upgrading, outside of some rubbish games
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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    I tried frying an egg on one once...

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    3D rendering, 2D design (where it's used), encoding/decoding/transcoding video... just using the software in some cases can be as heavy if not heavier than gaming as well.

    To be honest I do look for gpu support in software these days, there's no point in having an expensive gpu if all it's going to do is just display stuff on the screen.

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    Mining on my Plex/Sonarr server, but otherwise only gaming.
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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Well, first and foremost I use the GPU in my PC to get an image on my monitor. A close second would be gaming.

    As for general purpose usage, not so far. If that will change in the future, who knows, but I'm definitely happy that I have the opportunity to do so if I so choose.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Just watching movies

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    DaVinci Resolve, otherwise the rendering speed is pretty naff on my Hades Canyon.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Yes! Everyone does! Modern browsers are designed to use the GPU for video playback/decoding and some other features. Also modern video players use GPUs for video decoding and effects. But lso, yeah! I do purposefully use my GPU for accelerating 3D rendering. And, of course, rendering the viewport. And to accelerate other creative apps like photoshop, illustrator, etc.

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