ATI & NVIDIA Video Enhancement Quality Tested

[shevanel]

very cool.

 

[mechtech]

Hey W1ZZ.

What were the "optimized" settings you used for the radeon 5870?

Were they just set in Catalyst Control Center?

If so could you please share them with us, pretty please

 

[Steevo]

I have been using deblocking, mosquito noise removal, edge enhancement, and denoise in CCC. Are these the adjustments you used W1zz?

 

[W1zzard]

I have been using deblocking, mosquito noise removal, edge enhancement, and denoise in CCC. Are these the adjustments you used W1zz?

yes, just play the video, open ccc and change the sliders as you watch the video, find out what works best for you

wizz, can u give a photo along side the score ? its hard to imagine with just looking in the score.

maybe each photo in out-of-the box, default on, and optimized.

i was considering that, but realized it is impossible to take decent photos of the screen that show the scoring criteria.

1) screenshot = nono because of hdcp
2) camcorder = won't work because only full hd which is not enough resolution to capture another 1080p screen at full res
3) digital camera = didnt suceed, mostly because exposure is either too short or too long

 

[crow1001]

Superb article, cheers.

 

[SK-1]

Hey W1ZZ.

What were the "optimized" settings you used for the radeon 5870?

Were they just set in Catalyst Control Center?

If so could you please share them with us, pretty please

+1 please.

 

[Steevo]

I have mine set at 16 edge enhancement, 11 denoise, 18 mosquito noise removal, and 13 deblocking, and the deblocking varies with content for me.

 

[theubersmurf]

I'm not surprised ATI won out there, they emphasized video heavily for several years in the middle of the decade.

 

[Hayder_Master]

it's great idea to see new test and benchmark for graphic cards on our site, awesome work w1zzard

 

[Mussels]

thats quite a lot of change from 'out of the box' to the optimised results

 

[naoan]

awww the deblocking and mosquito noise removal is only available in 5XXX series... well I guess avisynth will do for now.

 

[wahdangun]

yes, just play the video, open ccc and change the sliders as you watch the video, find out what works best for you



i was considering that, but realized it is impossible to take decent photos of the screen that show the scoring criteria.

1) screenshot = nono because of hdcp
2) camcorder = won't work because only full hd which is not enough resolution to capture another 1080p screen at full res
3) digital camera = didnt suceed, mostly because exposure is either too short or too long

can u use non DRM video ? like movie trailer ?

 

[W1zzard]

can u use non DRM video ? like movie trailer ?

afaik you can't take a screencapture of gpu accelerated video, you find out and if it works i can look into it further

 

[OneCool]

thats quite a lot of change from 'out of the box' to the optimised results

Agreed!

It surprised me that the IGP was holding its own against the big dogs.


Although the out come is not surprising at all.ATI has always had better video quality than Nvidia IMO.

 

[wahdangun]

afaik you can't take a screencapture of gpu accelerated video, you find out and if it works i can look into it further

what the method are you using(using third party program, or just using prt-scr) ?

maybe u can take screen capture it by using special program, just like when u want to screen capture in-game footage(u can't just use prtscr key)?

btw I will search the program and try it(I will PM u if it work).

 

[W1zzard]

the official and probably legal answer is that you can't take screen captures of bluray hd content print screen and screen capture utilities don't work, powerdvd's save capture option is disabled for all bd content

 

[Roph]

It's due to hardware overlays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_overlay#Screenshots

 

[wahdangun]

the official and probably legal answer is that you can't take screen captures of bluray hd content print screen and screen capture utilities don't work, powerdvd's save capture option is disabled for all bd content

why its must blue ray HD content ? can't u use another HD content(like movie trailer, home made video, or any free distributed video) ?

 

[vidius maximus]

Possible Tallying Error?

Mmmm looking at where the best card lost points. It didn't add up. On the individual scores page they AMD scored a perfect 5/5 on every test except two. They fell short by only 8 points. But the total was 197/210 - that's 12 points shy of perfect. Should AMD's top score be 202 out of 210?

 

[Mussels]

why its must blue ray HD content ? can't u use another HD content(like movie trailer, home made video, or any free distributed video) ?

the test is about quality of played media that many people will have. testing a home video or a trailer is pointless, because the quality people care about is DVD/BR media - the stuff they'll actually use.

 

[wahdangun]

the test is about quality of played media that many people will have. testing a home video or a trailer is pointless, because the quality people care about is DVD/BR media - the stuff they'll actually use.

but there are some HD trailer(and its have a really good quality),

 

[Noy]

Mmmm looking at where the best card lost points. It didn't add up. On the individual scores page they AMD scored a perfect 5/5 on every test except two. They fell short by only 8 points. But the total was 197/210 - that's 12 points shy of perfect. Should AMD's top score be 202 out of 210?

I think the table is missing a line of scores, as the maximum is 205 not 210 (from that table).
I personally only ever use CCC to boost the gamma in dark movies. I really hate when a movie is so dark that you can't see anything but that might just be me on my CRT

 

[W1zzard]

ah found the problem .. the maximum score for skin tone correction is 10, not 5, that's a typo in the (5) number, the scoring was done correctly out of 10 (no setup can do it perfectly)

 

[HillBeast]

Nice to see this sort of review. I've always wondered how the cards fared in terms of videos quality. Still in my opinion the key decider of whether a movie will look good on your computer comes down to your monitor and how well you have set that up. Even the best card can't make a rubbish screen look good.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

moar post-processing filters = better quality?:shadedshu