Well, I'm happy with NVtools (even without multithreading available via MT0.7).
My really old PentiumD2 2.8Ghz/220GT-1gb achieves about 1/2 the processing rate for mpeg2 GPU deinterlacing/resizing and non-GPU deblocking/re-interlacing as does my Q9450/8800GT, with the exact same script. It should be a larger gap, but I think Trend anti-virus is sucking the life out of the q9450.
With comparing with equivalent scripts
not using NV (although taking advantage of MT) the q9450 earns its money (likely the extra cores), in that it's about 3 to 7 times faster than the old D2 depending on the script.
Comparing reasonably
equivalent scripts (obviously the deinterlacing will be different) on the old D2
GPU deinterlacing/resizing and non-GPU deblocking/re-interlacing = 4.3 fps
non GPU deinterlacing/resizing and non-GPU deblocking/re-interlacing = .8 fps
NV's GPU offloading gives older boxes a life after retirement.
Now, all I need is a GPU based deblocker
