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Minimum requirements for Autoquants software are an NVIDIA graphics card,

the Gigabyte card is an ATI based card, so it is not likely to work well 
for the visualisation if thats important (specific shaders i think). I 
believe CUDA is NVIDIA's API for GPU processing, (too many acronyms) so 
that is not going to be available.
The cost can't be that great a difference to justify hobbling your 
application.

Peter
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> Hi all,
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> I'm purchasing a new computer to be used for deconvolving confocal
> data with Media Cybernetics's AutoQuant/AutoDeblur software (ver.
> X1.4.1 maybe upgrading to X3).  I know MediaCy recommends NVIDIA
> graphics cards for their CUDA parallel processing ability but my
> computer people want to purchase a different card, ostensibly because
> we get a deal on the particular brand they want.  The card (GIGABYTE
> GV-R797D5-3GD-B) does have parallel processors but they're not branded
> as CUDA, I don't know enough to determine if that makes a difference;
> it does support openGL.  I'd appreciate it if people would share their
> experiences running AutoDeblur with non-NVIDIA (non-CUDA) cards.
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> Thanks,
> Esteban