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AMD or NVIDIA
CraigNZ:
I am currently using an AMD 5700 series graphics card but as of v108 I cannot enable HW acceleration when using ROHQ (as noted in my other post). I also have a NVIDIA GTX650ti that is sitting on the bench not being used for anything. Probably an overkill for watching movies but could be useful for making the HTPC also a gaming PC. For some reason I thought a couple of years ago that using NVIDIA graphics cards for HTPC was not good because of driver issues. So should I replace the AMD card with the NVIDIA card and hopefully it works okay with v108, or stay with HW acceleration off and wait until the AMD problem is resolved?
jmone:
I'm a fan of the nvidia cards and they are been great. The 650Ti should give you great ROHQ performance. That said I've not had any experience with AMD cards for many years. Give it a go!
Awesome Donkey:
I've used both and currently I favor Nvidia cards.
kstuart:
--- Quote from: CraigNZ on January 25, 2014, 04:51:41 pm ---So should I replace the AMD card with the NVIDIA card and hopefully it works okay with v108, or stay with HW acceleration off and wait until the AMD problem is resolved?
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My guess is that your "problem" is that JRiver's AMD problem was resolved in 108. Previously, hardware acceleration was checked, but it was not being used. So, in 108, suddenly it is being used and the GPU has extra work. madVR is very GPU-intensive.
If you already own the NVIDIA card, then give it a try.
eddyshere:
Hate to say it but i mostly tried it all (if I only think about the money spent :'(…but early still adopter). For me madvr (jinc3 in both chroma and up sampling was always the spot to achieve)…clearly this hurdle WAS only possible with a discrete card (>= 650TI for Nvidia and 7750 for AMD). Re UHD(4K) I have played around with a pana wt600 (4K) for the last weeks and just returned it to my dealer…where I'm customer since ages why he almost always accepts my trading in my stuff and I got my "old" KURO KRP-600A back (which I had traded in for the pana). DVD to 4k scaling in madvr was a pain but could be achieved with both a gtx780 and a R9 290. but I had to take out also my old full height htpc cases and temp and noise where again a concern.
To the OP's question I still have a preference for amd cards for my htpc's (my gaming rig is nvidia) as their driver where often somewhat "better" (deep color works out of the box - for the record : tried once a quadro K4000 and could never achieve deep color as the driver automatically turns it on only with selected softwares) and for me the picture quality with AMD seemed somewhat "sharper".
WHAT MABYE IS OF INTEREST for others : I'm in the early stages of my new "minimalistic-igp only" venture and made first tests with a gigabyte F2-A88X-wifi board with 8GB 2133RAM + the new Kaveri A10-7850. I can report that Jinc3 both chroma + upscaling to 1920-1080 with anti-ringing without dropped frames is possible, be it for dvd source and of course BD source material. So now I can revert to a "more than low-profile" htpc case which will definitly look better and sleek in my living room. So in short it seems that a discrete card is no longer necessary for these MadVr settings.
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