False information in the articles: No UVD in R600

[cadaveca]

Sure, and I agree with you on all of that, but you miss the whole "UVD on the product packaging, but not on the card".

I don't care that hardware decode WILL work(even though, it never will work...)..it doesn't now, not even with 8.38(yes, I have that driver too).

What concerns me is getting UVD to work...and that will never happen. SO, functionality on the box is not on the unit. SPECIFIC FUNCTIONALITY. not just simple decode acceleration...

hardware decode means that the videocard does the decode, and not the cpu. However, cpu work is SOFTWARE DECODE, NOT HARDWARE. Sure, hardware is pushing the data, but the software is doing the work..again, even in the instance Dave mentions, this is not hardware decode...it's decode acceleration..meaning part of the work the software does is done on the gpu, IN SOFTWARE(shader), not hardware.

HARDWARE DECODE IS NOT PRESENT IN 2900XT. Shader(software) ACCELERATED decode IS on 2900XT.

Do you get that? shader code doing the decode. SHADER CODE. Not hardware..software run on the shaders.

So, now that we have come full circle... THERE IS NO HARDWARE DECODE ON R600...MERELY HARDWARE ACCELERATED DECODE USING SHADERS(SOFTWARE).

Sampsa tends to not post something like this without reason, after all. It got stickied, becuase of the merit to his post. You call him a liar too, then?