Does sound coming from a GPU use up any resources that could go towards graphics?

[Dude_in_the_Room]

I have my GPU hooked up to a HDTV through a HDMI cable. The sound is coming from the GPU to the TV.

Just wondering if any resources are used that I could use if I were to say hook up a speaker system through the Mobo sound or when using headphones.

[Ogami]

No, its a chip on the GPU , same as if you use the sound chip on your motherboard.
It does not take additional resources from the GPU.
Its a pretty basic sound solution and does not offer the options a real soundcard has, but if you just want sound for your monitor/TV over HDMI then its totally fine.

[Dude_in_the_Room]

Thanks much for the info.

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by Dude_in_the_Room:

Thanks much for the info.

They are horribly wrong.

There's no sound chip in the GPU, when you're using hdmi output it just mean that the OS is sending audio signal to the GPU which then pass it to whatever receiver device that you connected the GPU to.

Which is why you can do something like this (usually done by htpc crowd) : GPU hdmi out - monitor hdmi in - monitor hdmi out - av receiver hdmi in.

The audio signal would just be ping ponged through all those devices before it reached the av receiver dac.

[Tiberius]

Gpu has no audio chip. It's only for passthrough

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Gpu has no audio chip. It's only for passthrough

Either way though it doesn't use any more resources that could be used for graphics.

[Napoleonic S]

Supposedly you can do the same with display port though, supposedly you can even using display port cable to send signals to your monitor and then using hdmi cable to output signals from that monitor to av receiver that only have hdmi ports.

Maybe someone can clarify this.

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Napoleonic S:

Supposedly you can do the same with display port though, supposedly you can even using display port cable to send signals to your monitor and then using hdmi cable to output signals from that monitor to av receiver that only have hdmi ports.

Maybe someone can clarify this.

As far as passing audio through display port, I know that is true for a fact because that's how my setup is. I'm not an audio phile so I don't ever really do anything more after that than plugging in my 2.1 speaker set into the 3.5mm audio output from my monitor, but it would make sense that an HDMI output from a display would also pass the audio.

That sounds like something kinda related to HDMI ARC (audio return channel), although aside from knowing it exists I dont know what it actually does, and it's late and I'm about to go to bed so I'm not gonna look it up right now.

[Witski]

hm yesterday i made a similar discussion about this (low audio), im waiting my rx 590 gold edition to arrive, so technically if i use his audio chip should be way better than my old mobo/750 ti right? it's audio should be more loud??

[Bob the Boomer]

Originally posted by Witski:

hm yesterday i made a similar discussion about this (low audio), im waiting my rx 590 gold edition to arrive, so technically if i use his audio chip should be way better than my old mobo/750 ti right? it's audio should be more loud??

No, it is only passing through and your old motherboard on board audio would process the sound making the SnR better and audio capabilities

[Witski]

ahhh that's a shame i don't want to buy external usb audio chips for now :( well ill stick with my trust speaker box to crank up the sounds :)

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by C=64:

Originally posted by Witski:

hm yesterday i made a similar discussion about this (low audio), im waiting my rx 590 gold edition to arrive, so technically if i use his audio chip should be way better than my old mobo/750 ti right? it's audio should be more loud??

No, it is only passing through and your old motherboard on board audio would process the sound making the SnR better and audio capabilities

Not entirely correct, that depends what hardware does he use on the actual receiver and amplifier hardware that actually output the audio. If he's using the same external hardware to output the sound then the sound should be the same.

[Witski]

im using a ugreen vga to hdmi adaptor now because of my old monitor, this thing have a micro usb port in it + a audio output jack 3.5
https://www.ubuy.co.it/en/catalog/product/view/id/731188/s/ugreen-active-hdmi-to-vga-adapter-converter-with-3-5mm-audio-jack-up?gclid=CjwKCAjwscDpBRBnEiwAnQ0HQMertcLFcO5-K8SCCXNAux-KrF92GRNamtnuiQAPNMZG46HrR9evLhoCZ-0QAvD_BwE

[Napoleonic S]

Originally posted by Witski:

im using a ugreen vga to hdmi adaptor now because of my old monitor, this thing have a micro usb port in it + a audio output jack 3.5
https://www.ubuy.co.it/en/catalog/product/view/id/731188/s/ugreen-active-hdmi-to-vga-adapter-converter-with-3-5mm-audio-jack-up?gclid=CjwKCAjwscDpBRBnEiwAnQ0HQMertcLFcO5-K8SCCXNAux-KrF92GRNamtnuiQAPNMZG46HrR9evLhoCZ-0QAvD_BwE

That's terrible and will continue being terrible no mater what hardware you use to play the audio, you can use a literal 1 million dollar audio hardware but the moment the digital audio data pass through that analogue converter on that cable everything turn into audio grade of garbage.

That is equivalent to outputting modern HD graphics to those 70s-90s analogue TV. You can use Hollywood render farm to output the 3d CGI picture but in the end it would still look like something coming from TV shows from 80s.

[Witski]

im. using a trust speaker plugged into the moba and my headset to crank up the audio level, i just try those to see if was the moba the problem of the low audio and because i need the connector for a new gpu (before i mooved from my uncle house, i used this pc into a tv screen 50" or less and an hdmi cable to my gpu, and headset plugged into the TV, the audio was super great, super loud if i want to, so i try this hdmi thing but the audio is the same.

[Dwerklesberry]

because hdmi isn't an amp, its just an output, buy a dac or something.