Saturday, November 17th 2007
NVIDIA Claims AMD Cannot Play HD Content; AMD Rebuttal Shows Otherwise
At NVIDIA's recent Editors Day, NVIDIA tried pretty hard to show just how awesome they think the 8800GT is. To do this, they took two computers, put an 8800GT in one, a 2900XT on the other, paired both to a 30" HP monitor that runs at a native 2560x1600 resolution, and tried to get both to play an HD-DVD. The 2900XT, according to NVIDIA, could not play any HD content, and was limited to 1920x1200. The incriminating slide is below. However, AMD was very prompt in their rebuttal. While the 8800GT can display HD content in a resolution higher than 1920x1200, none of the other 8800 cards can. The 8800GTX and Ultra, which are more powerful than the 8800GT and much more expensive, are limited to single-key HDCP, limiting the resolution and playback to 1920x1200. AMD then put an HD-DVD in the drive of a test system with an HD 3850, plugged it into a monitor capable of displaying a 2560x1600 resolution, and watched the movie in full screen with full hardware acceleration. AMD was also able to achieve full-screen playback on a test system with 2 HD 2900XTs.
Source:
The Inquirer
86 Comments on NVIDIA Claims AMD Cannot Play HD Content; AMD Rebuttal Shows Otherwise
A company has to wait for competition?? :roll: Since when. If you have a better* product before the competition you try to sell it. You don't say "Ey! I have the better product now, but if you wait just a month the competition is going to release their counterpart, so you have better off waiting..." And all that in their own event? :roll:
Well, TBH, that kind of behavior would make this world a lot better place to live on. LOL
*When I say better, undrestand that I'm refering to playing HD at 2560x1600, or any other claim that it is true in the moment of the claim.
For example here in the UK you can pick up (well out of stock but still the price is correct) a Zotac 8800GT for £160 with free delivery. On the same website the HD3870 is the same price (you can get it for around £150 but you will have to pay p & p on top). At these prices the 8800GT is easily the better choice.
I wish that applied to gamers for the superhd whatever it is. playing a game on a 30" screen with the resolution maxed would be sick. Whoever plays crysis in dx10 mode with all candy on. I wanna see it. Whether its 4 of the ati crossfires or what that would be phenomenal no pun intended.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing in anyway shape or form . . . it's just that most gamers aren't out there pricing 30" monitors, simply because to run a game at that native resolution would be like watching a slide show - unless you've got all the bad-ass hardware to handle that strain, and the vast majority of people don't.
Anyways, to kind of sum up how I interpeted nVidia's propaganda there . . . it'd be like if Reebok released an advertisement stating that Nike tennis shoes don't have good traction at all because Nike doesn't offer shoe sizes bigger than size 15.