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    Posted: 21 Jun 2010 at 9:22pm
i read in a thread justin.kerr said that the 5870s will give u better video quality when like watching movies is this true or i was i reading it wrong i dont remember what thread tho but i wanted to know if it does it for movies wouldnt it for video games and stuff too?

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HQV video tests show the 5870 decently better than the GTX 480
 
here is one test
 
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yep, the GTX 480 definitely had a little bit of a tough time keeping up with the 5870, hehe, even with the ridiculous amount of CUDA cores. only advantage that it has is PhysX really, and that's just an effect, not really contributing to overall image rendering.
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Gaming, the GTX 480 is more powerful, especially with high AA, with no AA the two are pretty much dead even, it has to do with the fact of how the two companies deal with AA, Nvidia is much more efficient.
 When it comes to movie play back that is ATI's strong suite, also with the ability to bit stream LPCM, which is extremely valuable, in HTPC setups.
Tesslation I believe will become more and more important in future games, and the Nvidia cards are way more powerful in this area also.
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but it wont make video games look better? like not the settings you can play on AA and all that side by side if you had computers that were exactly the same and could run games on max settings only difference is the video cards would the ati LOOK better or would it be the exact same im not talking about running smooth because crossfire can take of that im sayin actual LOOKS
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 22 Jun 2010 at 5:38pm
HQV can actually test visual quality on video playback. Games is a different story.  angle-independent AF is the only thing that ATI shines over Nvidia in gaming, for image quality wise.
Both cards have very good image quality, and it starts to become subjective, like sound quality in speakers.. some will like the looks of Nvidia some will like the looks of ATI, and most can not tell any difference. lol
Nothing like a $99 TN poop panel, and a guy raving about one GPU having better image quality over another, when you can't see anything on a panel like that any way.. like using logitec $20 speakers and saying how good the 15K+ sounds are.. lol...
So if you have the eye for it, and the quality of monitor to see it, you just might notice a difference. but for 95% of the people, the difference in image quality in games between the 5800 series and the GTX 400 series is very,very minimal.
The GTX 400 series can use a lot higher AA than the 5800 series can, which can smooth out micro jaggies, and that can make the GTX 400 series appear better also.....but again we are talking about very small jaggies that most would never notice.  so pick your poison. lol
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ok tyvm do any of you know anything about HTPCs? i want to build one but dont know anything about them really but i want one with ATI in it now... i was also thinking AMD because its cheaper unless intel is better for that too or is intel just better for gaming... also i dont need to overclock it or anything i wouldnt think i guess i dont know i dont know anything about it lol... but i do know i want a tv tuner in it because i can use it as a DVR
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