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GX-Brandon (369)   Aug 27, 2006 - 05:42 pm

I dunno how you can say the article has a tone of conclusiveness to it when we clearly state at the end that we're working on Part 2, and are asking for feedback for that article. "ATI’s upcoming hardware" = Radeon X1950 XTX. The reason it's stated that way is because we're using the X1950 for the screenshots/vid coverage, but as we clearly stated on page2 the IQ comments apply to ATI and NVIDIA's other high-end cards, not just the 7900 GTX and X1950 XTX. Finally, it's hard to be objective on a topic that's subjective in nature. What looks good to one person may look bad to another. We stated this at the outset. » Login to reply to this

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GX-Brandon (369)   Aug 25, 2006 - 11:33 am

I think in the conclusion on pg 6 we called it a draw on AA quality. RE HDR IQ: That's a good suggestion and something we will definitely look into thanks. » Login to reply to this  EpedemiX (2)   Aug 25, 2006 - 07:00 pm Overall maybe its a draw but by your own 3DMark PNG files its not. Right behind the center soldier there is a vertical brownish support beam against the wall to the huge canistor or resivoir thing . ATI 4xAA/16xAF http://firingsquad.com/media/hirez.asp?file=/hardware/ati_nvidia_image_quality_showdown_august06/images/17.png Nvidia 4xAA/16xAF http://firingsquad.com/media/hirez.asp?file=/hardware/ati_nvidia_image_quality_showdown_august06/images/18.png Nvidia doesnt smooth it out and it stands out like a sore thumb right in the center of the screenshots. Also if you look at the side of the crates or boxed that same soldier is standing the Orange lines are completely visable on the ATi screenshots where as in the Nvidia screenshots they are gratuadetly thinned out. Probably also want to explane the differance of.. Nvidias using FP16 & ATi using FX16 + MultiSampling » Login to reply to this

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GX-Brandon (369)   Aug 25, 2006 - 11:30 am

Again, please read my post from 8/23. » Login to reply to this

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GX-Brandon (369)   Aug 25, 2006 - 11:29 am

As I said a couple posts down, in Part 2 we're going to dig deeper into the control panel, and turn on/off the settings a bit more. We wanted to get this article up though to coincide with the X1950 launch so you could see the IQ we were getting for those benches. Now that we've got more time as I said, we're going to dig into the control panel of both companies for the follow-up article. Any feedback you'd like to provide on that, include it here. » Login to reply to this

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