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Madvr graphics card
6233638:
--- Quote from: Wull on February 11, 2014, 03:44:34 pm ---My friends just picked up an AMD A10 7850K, so far from what he has said his had good results with this. I wander if this is the way to go?
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This will not be nearly fast enough if you want to use everything madVR has to offer.
The new NNEDI3 image doubling/quadrupling is very demanding when used with HD content. (though I would say SD benefits from it a lot more than HD)
The new dithering reduces image noise quite a bit, but also requires more GPU power.
Right now AMD cards are faster than Nvidia for these two features, as they use OpenCL/DirectCompute, but who knows what will happen in the future.
To use everything, you need a high-end gaming card. My GTX 570 can only enable NNEDI3 image doubling with SD content for example, it's too slow to use it when upscaling HD video.
Wull:
--- Quote from: 6233638 on February 12, 2014, 06:55:02 am ---This will not be nearly fast enough if you want to use everything madVR has to offer.
The new NNEDI3 image doubling/quadrupling is very demanding when used with HD content. (though I would say SD benefits from it a lot more than HD)
The new dithering reduces image noise quite a bit, but also requires more GPU power.
Right now AMD cards are faster than Nvidia for these two features, as they use OpenCL/DirectCompute, but who knows what will happen in the future.
To use everything, you need a high-end gaming card. My GTX 570 can only enable NNEDI3 image doubling with SD content for example, it's too slow to use it when upscaling HD video.
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Thanks.
So if only watching blurays, the GPU doesn't need to be as powerful?
kstuart:
--- Quote from: Wull on February 12, 2014, 04:26:20 pm ---Thanks.
So if only watching blurays, the GPU doesn't need to be as powerful?
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If you are watching blurays on a 1080p HDTV, then yes, because you are not using luma upscaling in madVR.
And the fps is usually roughly 24fps, so there is more time between frames for the GPU to work.
There is still the question of how GPU-intensive a chroma scaler you can use, and whether or not you can use Error Diffusion instead of Random Dithering.
rec head:
Whenever I start researching graphics cards for the HTPC I just end up with more questions and don't bother.
Wull:
--- Quote from: rec head on February 13, 2014, 09:36:24 am ---Whenever I start researching graphics cards for the HTPC I just end up with more questions and don't bother.
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Very true. .... It sure is a minefield !!
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