The test here is to look at the white rail through the window - it should be perfectly white without any interruptions. ATI fails the test but NVIDIA passes it.



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This next scene is particularly bad:



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And both contenders do particularly bad in it.

While it would seem that both ATI and NVIDIA do rather similarly in the next test below, Rachel's shirt is a great de-interlacing benchmark. The shirt should only have horizontal lines, but on ATI's GPU there are vertical artifacts caused by de-interlacing. Chalk up another win for NVIDIA.



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Our final Friends test gets a pass from both contenders:



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DVD Playback Quality (continued) HD Decode Performance
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  • Novaoblivion - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

    This is pretty interesting and since I already bought the Nvidia DVD Decoder I can upgrade to this new version if the link on Nvidia's site ever starts working lol.
  • jonny13 - Monday, December 20, 2004 - link

    "Considering that PureVideo came as a free feature on GeForce 6 cards"

    How is paying $20 for the damn codec free?

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