Cat 5.13 puts ATI ahead of NVIDA in video playback

[dfloyd]

Originally posted by: southpawuni
Hey, if you cant bring cards to market at launch.. and you cant defeat Nvidia in SLI technologies or become the gamers choice, which would be Nvidia's position right now.. might as well accelerate some video?



Haha, good job anyway ATI. Nice to see them offering something worth reading about.

Actually I would say this has nothing at all to do with beating losing blah blah blah Nvidia whatever. Just another ssdd day.

Ati has always pushed their video capabilites. Heck they were pushing Video capabilites before Nvidia even created their first card. Way back when consumer based 3d cards was a wet dream that many thought would never happen because of the wonderfully high cost of memory.

 

[Steelski]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
From hexus:

"We'd also have liked ATI to have disclosed more fully that their X1K SKUs wouldn't have across-the-board equivalency for HD decode, after we asked Godfrey, "I take it performance of the assist scales with GPU engine clock? If so, is it right to assume lower performance on the slowest RV515 hardware, but performance that's still better than any other transcode or encode assist on other competing products?", back in October where he commented that they were only talking about R520 just then. That X1300 isn't as capable as X1600 or X1800 at decoding HD video is rather disappointing, although somewhat expected."

Thoughts on this?

I did not expect this as the previous ATI cards have all had one standard in quality. (but thats really quality).
The x1300 series still helps a lot with the decoding (probably) but not as much as the others. I would like a test of this compared to a GTX , 1600 and 1800 and what benefits each would have in the HD departments. I would guess that the x1300 will still help a lot and 1080p will still be possible but with a better cpu. i have ffdshow and can run many WMHD 1080p files i have not tried other formats at the moment. (i have a 3200XP 1gig and 9800pro)