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AMD accuses Nvidia of cheating
Author: Phil CogarPublished: 5th September 2007
AMD has accused NVIDIA of cheating - but will the complaints just backfire?
Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) features true 10-bit processing, automatic multi cadence detection, and four-field per-pixel de-interlacing, and is included in nearly all HD DVD and Blu-ray players for converting standard definition video into high definition video.
AMD is saying that Nvidia cheated Silicon Optix's HD HQV benchmarks by using a driver with an aggressive noise reduction algorithm to help gain a perfect score in the benchmark's noise reduction section. This aggressive algorithm allegedally causes visible ghosting in the videos.
Both companies scored a perfect 100 in the benchmarks with their Avivo HD and PureVideo HD equipped products.
Nvidia has responded to the accusation by saying that the driver used in the testing procedure was the old ForceWare 163.11 beta version that used the suspect algorithm by default. Newer Forceware 163.44 beta drivers use a less aggressive default setting and offer could force AMD to offer adjustable settings in its own driver package.
a 0-100 percent noise reduction slider that can be adjusted by users.
“As we openly told reviewers, using aggressive noise reduction settings may cause ghosting depending on the content played so we recommend using moderate settings. We also recommend the improved 163.44 driver, released a few weeks ago, which reduces this effect,” Rick Allen, Nvidia Notebook and Multimedia PR manager, told DailyTech.
The interesting point is that Nvidia does offer an adjustable noise reduction feature while AMD uses an adaptive, non-adjustable setting. This could force AMD to offer adjustable noise reduction in the future.
If you're running a video card with PureVideo HD, load up those drivers, start a HD or upscale a SD film and see if you can spot any ghosting. Tell us your results over in the forums or in the comments section below.
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"and offer (could force AMD to offer adjustable settings in its own driver package. )a 0-100 percent noise reduction slider that can be adjusted by users."
i feel that 2
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No ? thought not - yawn
But to be honest I'm with the crowd so far AMD are just really bitter and spiteful with their current situation.
and can that Black Edition X2 while youre at it ....hard to be a fanboy is theres nothing to fan over.
and Nvidia you 8800 is getting long in tooth so step up too.
ok rant over
Gotta agree, the Intel thing seemed to be true, and I'm no fan of either company, but AMD seemed to have better business practices, but now? Suing all their competition? Just lame.
what do you want them to do? they inherited the design when they bought them, there would be very little they could do in the time they owned ATI (esspecially with Admin issues etc). any time spent improving the design would have lead to a later release and we all know how late it was already it wasnt AMD's fault it was ATI's besides performance is actually pretty good now.
anyway back on topic
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=157297
can you honestly tell me that should get 100 in an image quality test.
yes its quite petty but still if the 2000 series is better at something it deserves a better score so it can market it
what if AMD where to release a driver that meant it could get 25% more FPS in all games but the image quality went to **** (i'm sure they could do this if they wanted) would it be allowed to be call these benchmarks for advertisement i would say no
exactly