Measuring CPU usage during HD video playback: ATI vs. NVIDIA

**admin** · 31 Dec 2007, 07:58 PM

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Video card gaming performance traditionally gets most of the coverage whenever ATI and NVIDIA go head-to-head with new products, and it makes a certain amount of sense given that gaming is a traditional driver of discrete graphics card sales. But gaming isn't the only field on which ATI and NVIDIA compete. Today I'll be examining high definition video image quality and CPU usage during HD decoding on a set of current ATI and NVIDIA cards.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...vs-nvidia.html

An interesting look at GPU performances in relation to HD decoding (H.264 and VC-1, as well as 1080i HDTV decoding). ATI wins easily, although the NVIDIA GPUs with the new type of PureVideo HD isn't too far behind.

**Chewy** · 31 Dec 2007, 11:46 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...557&name=512MB

it's pretty obvious with 1 card in stock and 12 out of stock what the gamers have voted for

**admin** · 1 Jan 2008, 01:32 PM

What about the 8800 GTS 512 MB? Worth the additional $50 for the extra 3D performance?

**Chewy** · 1 Jan 2008, 01:55 PM

http://www.techspot.com/review/79-ge...512/page2.html

not a whole lot of difference, it runs cooler tho with a better fan, those baby's are hot

88C under load

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31 Dec 2007, 11:46 PM	#2
Chewy Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: millenium falcon Posts: 18,961	http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...557&name=512MB it's pretty obvious with 1 card in stock and 12 out of stock what the gamers have voted for

1 Jan 2008, 01:32 PM	#3
admin Administrator Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 5,182	What about the 8800 GTS 512 MB? Worth the additional $50 for the extra 3D performance?

1 Jan 2008, 01:55 PM	#4
Chewy Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: millenium falcon Posts: 18,961	http://www.techspot.com/review/79-ge...512/page2.html not a whole lot of difference, it runs cooler tho with a better fan, those baby's are hot 88C under load

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