ATI's Avivo Platform - H.264 Decode and Transcode Acceleration on R5xx

Improved De-Interlacing and Video Scaling

With Avivo, ATI has also improved their de-interlacing and video scaling, both of which are important features for any media PC.

These two items are going to be much more difficult to evaluate until we have an Avivo GPU in house that we can compare to NVIDIA's offerings. However, with our article on PureVideo, we found that NVIDIA's Spatial-Temporal de-interlacing truly improved de-interlacing quality over ATI's current-generation offerings, at the time. With the R5xx class of GPUs, ATI plans on introducing a new vector adaptive de-interlacing algorithm, which we can only assume is similar in intent to NVIDIA's spatial-temporal algorithm from PureVideo.

Although we saw pictures of ATI's new de-interlacing in action, we cannot at present really determine its quality. The same can be said about the new scaler in ATI's upcoming hardware: we're just going to have to wait and see. For now, all we can say is that it appears better than what was in the R4xx series of GPUs.