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Adarsh
Adarsh

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Display via Tesla graphic card

I want to display a processed video on monitor. For video processing in CUDA, I am thinking to get a Nvidia Tesla grade card, but it does not have any video out port. Is there a way to create the frame buffer on the Tesla GPU card, then transfer it to system memory and display via motherboard graphics?

PS: I don't want to compute anything on CPU, to have a near real time performance.

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Regis Portalez
Regis Portalez

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For video processing (and display), and given what I understand of your problem, Tesla is probably not your best choice.

  1. Tesla cards are expensive, (partly) because of double precision support, which you don't need for video processing
  2. Tesla cards don't have any video port, meaning you have to send back your frames to system (obviously possible). That means a performance penalty, and more code to write and maintain.

Did you have a look to Quadro product line? They have display ouput, and are usually meant for this kind of applications (but still expensive).

If you want to display, that probably means you work on a desktop application. So you graphics card won't work 24/7 in full compute load? In that case, why not a GeForce?

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