Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12442 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> A fast G5 will play media on par with 4.x with the GPU transcoding.
No way. OS4 with A-Eon's drivers can decode and play 4k video with almost no CPU load, whereas 2.5-2.7 GHz G5 may struggle with decoding and playing 1080p video (i.e. ΒΌ of 4k's pixel count) in software, depending on codec, profile, bitrate etc.