ATI and nVidia crush high-end DVD players

Final scores

The total score for nVidia ends up being 93, where the total ATI score is 118. Both scores are extremely high, considering the score of the most best performing DVD player we tested (the Marantz DV6600) was only 63. The majority of the standalone players we used did not score more than 40 points in the test. The most expensive ones, the Denon DVD-3910 and Marantz DV9600 scored only 58 and 61 points.

For European readers the cadence tests are not of real importance, so we only take the first eight tests into consideration. The score then is slightly different, nVidia scored 58 in these tests, where as ATI scored 53. A pretty close result, and the slight advantage for nVidia is mainly due to the excellent PureVideo performance in the detail tests.

	ATI AVIVO	nVidia PureVideo	Denon DVD-1920	Denon DVD-3910	Marantz DV6600	Marantz DV9600	Panasonic DVD-S97	Philips DVP 5900	Philips DVP 9000S	Pioneer DV-989AVi	Samsung DVD-HD850	Samsung DVD-HD950	Sony DVP-NS92V	Yamaha DVD-S2500
Color Bar / Vertical Detail	10	10	10	10	10	10	5	5	5	10	0	0	10	5
Jaggies Pattern 1	5	5	5	5	5	3	5	0	5	3	0	0	0	5
Jaggies Pattern 2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	3
Flag	10	10	10	10	10	5	10	0	10	5	0	0	0	10
Picture Detail	5	10	0	0	0	10	10	0	0	10	0	0	10	0
Noise Reduction	10	10	0	0	0	5	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Motion Adaptive Noise Reduction	10	10	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
3:2 Detection	10	10	5	5	10	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	5
Film Cadance 2:2	5	0	0	0	0	5	0	5	0	0	5	5	0	0
Film Cadence 2:2:2:4	5	0	0	0	0	5	0	5	0	5	5	5	0	0
Film Cadence 2:3:3:2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Film Cadence 3:2:3:2:2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Film Cadence 5:5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Film Cadence 6:4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	5	5	0	0
Film Cadence 8:7	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Film Cadence 3:2	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	0	5	5	0	0	0	5
Mixed 3:2 with Horizontal Video Titles	5	5	10	10	10	0	5	5	10	0	5	5	5	10
Mixed 3:2 with Vertical Video Titles	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Total Score	118	93	58	58	63	61	68	35	53	59	30	30	35	53

HQV scores from ATI and nVidia compares to 12 DVD-players varying in price from $ 200 to over $ 2000.

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