Confused:Which gfx card support what? (AVIVO, Purevideo) (1 Viewer)

[jcee]

I searched the internet, but did not find a overall answer.

I wonder which gfx card gives the best video picture, some say Nvidia, some say ATI is better. Both come with their own technology.

I also heard so rumours that the features support depend on the generation of card. For me this means that a X1300 might have other AVIVO features than a X1900, so whats the story?!

 

[Spragleknas]

You will probably never get a unanimous answer to the ATi vs nVidia, but I belive the PureVideo-feauture is best liked (also, there are reviews around pointing towards nVidia as the best choice).

PureVideo support: http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html

 

[jcee]

Yes, thanks. But I read latest forum entries on other boards. They say that the comparison where Purevideo was better is old. It was based on a review in December.
Lot of voices are telling that AVIVO has become much better and superiour to Purevideo.
Latest comparison that I have read the there is a HQV benchmark, and that Nvidia got around 65 points (out of 150), where ATI got >120!!!.

They said there is more hardware potential in ATI gfx cards.
I guess I am going to check it out and buy a ATI card.

What I am still confused with: There are so many ATI cards around (X1300-X1900) and I wonder if some of them have limited or feature-rich AVIVO?!

Does anybody know?

ATTENTION HDTV USERS: I just came across some interesting infos:
As most of us use a DVI=>HDMI connection it depends on the gfx card to "translate" the PC resolution into a resolution that the panel can display.

As far as I know actuall gfx cards to "query" the TV and recieve a list of supported modes, they then translate.
This works actuall fine with my newer Nvidia 7600GS card and all the native PC resolution in games show up nice! (800x600,1024x768, etc..) and all without any overscan, though(!) my PIO plasma does not support native PC/DOS resolutions.

The counterpart is that the card does this only in Windows. That means during POST/BIOS it does not show anything when booting and I would have to hook up a VGA-Monitor to configure something in BIOS or enter "safe mode".

Someone told me that ATIs card would also translate in DOS mode, which would overcome this annoying issue.

(BTW: the older FX5200 card I owned, worked in DOS mode.. But I belive this was by fault as it did not query the displays capabilities. In Windows when asking for non-display-supported resolution, it switched into the new resolution and the display showed up with artifacts annd flickering..
So if anybody is fighting with these issues, consider buying a new card..)