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.
MSI N560GTX TFII | |
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 |
2:2:2:4 24 FPS DVCAM Video
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5 |
2:3:3:2 24 FPS DVCam Video
|
5 |
3:2:3:2:2 24 FOS Vari-Speed
|
5 |
5:5 FPS Animation
|
5 |
6:4 12 FPS Animation
|
5 |
8:7 8 FPS Animation
|
5 |
Interlace Chroma Problem (ICP)
|
5 |
Chroma Upsampling Error (CUE)
|
5 |
Random Noise: Sailboat
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5 |
Random Noise: Flower
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5 |
Random Noise: Sunrise
|
5 |
Random Noise: Harbour Night
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5 |
Scrolling Text
|
5 |
Roller Coaster
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5 |
Ferris Wheel
|
5 |
Bridge Traffic
|
5 |
Text Pattern/ Scrolling Text
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5 |
Roller Coaster
|
5 |
Ferris Wheel
|
5 |
Bridge Traffic
|
5 |
Luminance Frequency Bands
|
5 |
Chrominance Frequency Bands
|
5 |
Vanishing Text | 5 |
Resolution Enhancement
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15 |
Theme Park
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5 |
Driftwood | 5 |
Ferris Wheel
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5 |
Skin Tones
|
5 |
Total | 192 |
The new forceware drivers with this specific hardware generates a total score of 192 points, out of a possible 210. This is one of the highest scores we have seen from nVidia and shows that they are starting to catch up with AMD.
damn, thats a nice card. MSI certainly have created one of the nicest looking cards !
Thats what im talking about. under £200 too ! wow, was expecting it to be 230. best buy right now? must be up there with the best.
Have to hand it to MSI, they know their card designs. I dont buy into that ‘military grade’ stuff myself, but the cards get plenty of attention to detail and thats worth a lot of credit when some other manufacturers can be very lazy.
Excellent, glad to see a good 560 here, even among the 40,000 AMd reviews 😉
I have the 460 GTX from MSI, which I read here and on bitech last year, its been the best video card ive owned. I dont really need this card, but the next generation 660 ? ill be getting that from MSI. awesome boards.
560 is an awesome card, thanks for the review Z, awesome as always.
Wish they would do a 2GB version. lets also hope the new generation will support 3 screens without needing two.
Very impressed with this board, 60c under load when gaming? thats better than a 5770 I have in another case !
Great price point to achieve. would be my first choice for a new card.
nvidia tessellation performance gets to me everytime. AMD have still such a long way to go.
proves a point too that when AMD fans say Nvidia suck a lot of power, the new designs have it sorted. 🙂