NVIDIA Enables PureVideo on GeForce 6 GPUs

Our next set of tests are taken entirely from The Best of Friends Volume 3 DVD. As we mentioned earlier, Friends is recorded at 24 fps but is flagged as 30 fps source, which provides a good stress test for DVD decoder detection algorithms as well as de-interlacing abilities. Our first scene shows a similar number of artifacts on both the ATI and NVIDIA GPUs, image quality appears to be identical across both GPUs.

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The next test is similar to what we saw in the Big Lebowski test, with ATI incorrectly using data from the next field to weave with the previous field resulting in a poor quality image. NVIDIA doesn't suffer from the same problem which is a win for PureVideo.

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If we look at the blinds in the corner as well as the jaggies on Chandler's shirt we see that NVIDIA comes away with another win.

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