Need info regarding Nvidia GPU

[Eleazar]

Can anyone help to give information regarding Nvidia GPU that can use CUDA, since it seems to be taking off, and do as much DXVA acceleration on VC-1 as possible?

[SecRecy]

Check NVIDIA GPU Programming Guide

The NVIDIA GeForce 8 and 9 Series GPU Programming Guide provides useful advice on how to identify bottlenecks in your applications, as well as how to eliminate them by taking advantage of the GeForce 8 and 9 Series’ features.

In addition, a special section on DirectX 10 will inform you of common problems encountered when porting from DirectX 9 to DirectX 10. It is available in English and includes chapters on:

• How to Optimize Your Application
• General GPU Performance Tips
• GeForce 8 and 9 Series Programming Tips
• Considerations when using DirectX 10
• NVIDIA Performance Tools

........and more

-Download-

[Joshua]

If you are looking just for video playback, then you can get as cheap as possible, preferable under $80USD.
If you are trying for both video playback and gaming, then I recommend you to get a higher end card.

[Russell]

NVIDIA is the catalyst for the largest GPU computing developer community.NVIDIA's interactive, on-line GPU developer community provides access to forums, educational materials, and additional resources and tools.

I would suggest you to go for Tesla GPU product by NVIDIA. Tesla computing solutions enable users to process large datasets with a massively multi-threaded computing architecture. By developing a parallel architecture from the ground up, NVIDIA has designed its new Tesla computing products to meet the requirements of HPC software. Exclusive computing features include a Thread Execution Manager to coordinate the concurrent execution of thousands of computing threads and a Parallel Data Cache enabling computing threads to share data easily, delivering results in less time.