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HQV Benchmark 2.0 is an updated version of the original tool and it consists of various video clips and test patterns which are designed to evalute motion correction, de-interlacing, decoding, noise reduction, detail enhancement and film cadence detection.
There are two versions of the program, standard definition on DVD and high definition on Bluray. As our audience will be concentrating on HD content so will we.
This has a total of 39 video tests which is increased from 23 in the original and the scoring is also up from a total of 130 to 210. As hardware and software gets more complicated, the software has been tuned to make sure we can thoroughly maximise our analysis.
Read our initial analysis over here.
| KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 | |
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Dial
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4 |
| Dial with static pattern | 5 |
| Gray Bars | 5 |
| Violin | 5 |
| Stadium 2:2 | 5 |
| Stadium 3:2 | 5 |
| Horizontal Text Scroll | 3 |
| Vertical Text Scroll | 5 |
| Transition to 3:2 Lock | 5 |
| Transition to 2:2 Lock | 0 |
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2:2:2:4 24 FPS DVCAM Video
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5 |
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2:3:3:2 24 FPS DVCam Video
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5 |
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3:2:3:2:2 24 FOS Vari-Speed
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5 |
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5:5 FPS Animation
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5 |
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6:4 12 FPS Animation
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5 |
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8:7 8 FPS Animation
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5 |
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Interlace Chroma Problem (ICP)
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5 |
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Chroma Upsampling Error (CUE)
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5 |
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Random Noise: Sailboat
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5 |
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Random Noise: Flower
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5 |
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Random Noise: Sunrise
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5 |
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Random Noise: Harbour Night
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5 |
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Scrolling Text
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5 |
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Roller Coaster
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5 |
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Ferris Wheel
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5 |
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Bridge Traffic
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5 |
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Text Pattern/ Scrolling Text
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5 |
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Roller Coaster
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5 |
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Ferris Wheel
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5 |
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Bridge Traffic
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5 |
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Luminance Frequency Bands
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5 |
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Chrominance Frequency Bands
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5 |
| Vanishing Text | 5 |
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Resolution Enhancement
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15 |
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Theme Park
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5 |
| Driftwood | 5 |
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Ferris Wheel
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5 |
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Skin Tones
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5 |
| Total | 192 |
The hardware scores 192 points out of a possible 210 which is close to the leading AMD result (4 points higher).
excellent, been waiting on a review of these for a very long time
Amazon have them also. I ordered one there, great deal and thanks for review.
Lol that power drain for the system is insane. I was drooling, but im glad I dont have it,. my electricity bill would be insane.
haha, total overkill. gotta love tech. Not sure id like the bill for a years worth of gaming on that system though.
Nice idea to work with arctic. I think sapphire did for a while on a range of cards didnt they?
impressive, never heard of the company. their website is great too. hope to see more of their products here
the power drain scares me for that full system. mine consumes less than 200 watts!
@ the cons
SLI cables come with SLI capable motherboards
It does come with a free game (even in the link product)
No mention that it is a triple slot cooler and thus will only fit certain motherboards in
SLI
Mine didnt come with a free game, bought it on amazon. The batman deal is with nvidia on seleected stores.
It is a disgrace these cards dont come with an SLI connector. My MSI motherboard has an SLI connector with it, but its a HARD, inflexible style connector not designed for cards of this size, so it wouldnt work. A high end card like this with a custom cooler should be supplied with a large flexible SLI connector.
If lowest price is the main deciding factor then yes. If performance and engineering of the card then most definitely no.
MSI Lighting 580 (not ridiculously overpriced Extreme Ed.) beats KFA2 580A in every test. And MSI TF3 cooling is well worth the extra few quids in price. It keeps card very cool – below 40C. In stress you can also get few degrees off vs KFA. And most important thing – cooling is a 2 slot solution which means you can easily squeeze 4 of such monsters in one case. It is pretty much impossible with KFA580A – you can do that only with min. 10 PCI slot case using PCI Express x16 risers/extenders (extra cost which nullify the advantage in price – risers are not cheap).
MSI lightning 580 is ok at best, I want this one 🙂
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-133-MS&utm_source=froogle
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