Saturday, November 17th 2007
NVIDIA Claims AMD Cannot Play HD Content; AMD Rebuttal Shows Otherwise
At NVIDIA's recent Editors Day, NVIDIA tried pretty hard to show just how awesome they think the 8800GT is. To do this, they took two computers, put an 8800GT in one, a 2900XT on the other, paired both to a 30" HP monitor that runs at a native 2560x1600 resolution, and tried to get both to play an HD-DVD. The 2900XT, according to NVIDIA, could not play any HD content, and was limited to 1920x1200. The incriminating slide is below. However, AMD was very prompt in their rebuttal. While the 8800GT can display HD content in a resolution higher than 1920x1200, none of the other 8800 cards can. The 8800GTX and Ultra, which are more powerful than the 8800GT and much more expensive, are limited to single-key HDCP, limiting the resolution and playback to 1920x1200. AMD then put an HD-DVD in the drive of a test system with an HD 3850, plugged it into a monitor capable of displaying a 2560x1600 resolution, and watched the movie in full screen with full hardware acceleration. AMD was also able to achieve full-screen playback on a test system with 2 HD 2900XTs.
Source:
The Inquirer
86 Comments on NVIDIA Claims AMD Cannot Play HD Content; AMD Rebuttal Shows Otherwise
It's the absence of not recognizing the 3870 which is the most telling.
These people are buying the largest monitors and TVs that they can because they want that "home theater" experience for watching mostly movies - not games. We all know the higher the resolution thats being displayed, the slower your game is going to run - so we really don't care. But if you want to watch "Transformers" on Blu-Ray, you don't want to have a CRT-style black border around the displayed image, right?
Now as for this debacle.. *sniff sniff* LAWSUIT! As petty as it may seem at first glance, ATi have a legitimate reason to go for one, nVidia have deliberately tried to deface ATi, and to an extent, is false advertising of ATi hardware capabilities.
. . . ATI just aren't like that. They haven't ever struck me as the type to retaliate in court - they've always turned the other cheek, so-to-say. naw, I don't think nVidia is really that worried - at least where the 2900 is concerned, but the newer 3800 series are a completely different matter. Like I said before, I think nVidia has been quite complacent in their lead over ATI, and probably were under the impression that the 3800 series would end up like the 2900s did, and now that ATI has proven they're not . . . nVidia feels threatened by it and isn't sure how to respond.
Don't worry - nVidia has been seemingly making mistakes a little more often than they normally do recently, and I think we're going to see another shift in GPU competition leadership within the next year - and with people becoming more focused on image quality recently, especially with the HD craze, I'm really under the impression that ATI will take the lead for quite a while again.
Nvidia is about to get their ass kicked again.
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AMD/ATi = Australian Labor Party
I know which one is trying to do scare tactics that are coming back to rape them.
work choicesslavery system. I rofl'ed at the "most of labour are union" ad, wow, scary music, but... Do most people even give a damn?w00t for the free laptop for year 9 to 12 policy if kevin rudd wins! hahaha...>=D. I'd love a laptop!