Index
DVD meets the PC
S3’s Return – Hardware Motion Compensation
The next big step – ATI’s Rage 128
NVIDIA gets in on the action
More than just performance
The Test
Quality Comparison - Upscaling & Downscaling
Upscaling & Downscaling – Results
Downscaling Results
Colorspace Conversion
De-Interlacing
De-Interlacing – Results
Overall Quality
Features Comparison
Features (continued)
Performance Comparison
Decoder Performance
Overall Performance
Final Words
The Test
DVD Test System
Hardware
CPU(s)
AMD Athlon 1.1GHz
Motherboard(s)
ASUS A7V
Memory
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
(Micron -7E Chips)
Hard Drive
Western Digital 153BA Ultra ATA
66 7200 RPM
Video Card(s)
3dfx Voodoo3
3500TV
3dfx Voodoo5 5500
ATI Radeon 64DDR
Matrox Millennium G200
Matrox Millennium G400MAX
NVIDIA GeForce SDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (32MB)
S3 Savage 20000
Ethernet
Linksys
LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter
Software
Operating System
Windows
98 SE w/ WinDVD 2.2
Video Drivers
3dfx
Voodoo3 3500TV - 1.04.02
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 - 1.01.03
Matrox G400 - 6.01.015
Matrox G200 - 5.41.008
All NVIDIA cards used Detonator 6.18 drivers
S3 Savage 2000 - 95103
Benchmarking Applications
Video
MadOnion
Video2000
More than just performance
Quality Comparison - Upscaling & Downscaling
Index
DVD meets the PC
S3’s Return – Hardware Motion Compensation
The next big step – ATI’s Rage 128
NVIDIA gets in on the action
More than just performance
The Test
Quality Comparison - Upscaling & Downscaling
Upscaling & Downscaling – Results
Downscaling Results
Colorspace Conversion
De-Interlacing
De-Interlacing – Results
Overall Quality
Features Comparison
Features (continued)
Performance Comparison
Decoder Performance
Overall Performance
Final Words
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