Question On Gpu Monitoring Items

[spaceman]

In OSD, Vista Sidebar, and Sensor icons/items there are three sensors for GPU utilization. Can anyone tell me what the VE and MC are monitoring specifically?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Fiery]

VE = Video Engine

MC = Memory Controller

Regards,

Fiery

[spaceman]

Thank you!

Another question. While playing a blu-ray movie I noticed that the GPU utilization says 0% but the VE is around 65-70%. Does that mean that the GPU is being used? On the other hand when I play games GPU utilization is 70-95% while the VE is 0%. What does it mean? I should mention that what I'm trying to do is offload playing a blu-ray movie on to the GPU instead of the CPU. But my CPU, one of it's 4 cores is 100%. And I have hardware acceleration turned on in the software playing the blu-ray to use the GPU.

[Fiery]

Modern GPUs can be used to accelerate HD video playback, to offload that task from the CPU. So what you experience about VE utilization while playing video is very much normal.

While playing games the HD video acceleration is not utilized, but the usual graphics rendering part of the GPU (that accelerates 3D games) is under heavy load.

I'm not sure why your CPU is working at 100% while playing a Blu-ray movie. I don't think it's normal...

[Squall Leonhart]

DXVA was problematic under older drivers

[72hundred]

Just came across this in the new Precision X (or maybe it was there for ages and I didn't know about it), but it might help put a different perspective on what we were talking about above. 

[MrNoob]

What is GPU BI Utilization?

 

Whats the difference between GPU Used Dedicated Memory and Used Video Memory?

 

GPU Used Dedicated Memory = 455 MB

GPU Used Dynamic Memory = 30 MB

Used Video Memory = 561 MB

Free Video Memory = 7631 MB