Adobe announce GPU acceleration for Flash 10.1
We've talked a fair bit recently about a forthcoming announcement of a GPU-accelerated version of Adobe Flash, and that announcement has now become official, with Adobe promising GPU acceleration as of the release of Flash 10.1.آ More importantly, more news has surfaced as to exactly how Adobe will be enabling that acceleration, and despite concerns that it would use CUDA and thus be NVIDIA-only, it appears that DXVA will be used instead, thus meaning that Windows owners with a graphics board from any manufacturer should be able to enjoy the advantages of GPU acceleration for all Flash-based applications.
While NVIDIA is the one sending out the press release this morning, it should be noted that this Flash acceleration uses the DXVA protocols - not CUDA or any NVIDIA-specific.آ That means that AMD GPUs will also benefit from Flash acceleration so users of low-cost 785G platforms, for example, will also see great performance improvement.
Now for some bad news - this Flash Player 10.1 revision isn't out yet and the only release information we have is "before the end of the year."آ That version, when available, will be a beta version that users will have to manually go download and install.آ The full, auto-update version that will include DXVA support won't be pushed out until the second quarter of 2010.آ That still gives ION's competitors (basically Intel) a LOT of time to make up the difference 10.1 will offer.
Now for some bad news - this Flash Player 10.1 revision isn't out yet and the only release information we have is "before the end of the year."آ That version, when available, will be a beta version that users will have to manually go download and install.آ The full, auto-update version that will include DXVA support won't be pushed out until the second quarter of 2010.آ That still gives ION's competitors (basically Intel) a LOT of time to make up the difference 10.1 will offer.
PC Perspective has the news and press release in full.
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