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Thank you, but what does this mean exactly?
From what I understand... Avivo is a piece of hardware dedicated to one task and one task alone. It is nothing like CUDA
Compute Unified Device Architecture or CUDA lets programmers manipulate the hardware in a GPU.
Instead of having a dedicated piece of hardware to do a single job, (like Ati's Avivo, or Nvidia's PureVideoHD) the Geforce 8 cards and Ati/AMD's Radeon 3*** cards are programmable. Just like regular CPU's.
The Ati/AMD version of CUDA is called CAL, (Compute Abstraction Layer).
Video rendering is a highly parallel function, so GPU's are ideally suited to do it very very fast.