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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 evaluate 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.
| Sapphire EDGE HD4 Mini PC | |
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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 | 5 |
| 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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3 |
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Roller Coaster
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3 |
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Ferris Wheel
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3 |
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Bridge Traffic
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3 |
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Text Pattern/ Scrolling Text
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3 |
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Roller Coaster
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3 |
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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 | 2 |
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Ferris Wheel
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3 |
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Skin Tones
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3 |
| Total | 175 |
Image quality from the HD4 is very good, scoring 175 points out of a possible 210.
Its a nice little system, but that celeron is a little weak, I was expecting a little more from Intel, even up to the A8 4555m performance, but AMD are all over Intel, with only a little more power demand at the socket.
I actually have the first EDGE and this seems like a decent upgrade. I might pick this up. any availability anywhere? cant find it.
Nice idea, I missed the A8 Edge first time around, that certainly appeals to me more than the celeron v ersion.
The power consumption is incredible, thats less than my light in the bedroom. Celeron is a bit gutless however, but for a media center id love it.
SSD for me of course.
I want to get the EDGE VS8 when I get the cash, i absolutely love the look of it. I will be putting Windows 8 on mine for media. This is also great, but its funny to see AMD walking away with low powered systems ! can’t say that in the high end.
that power consumption figure is crazy, that whole system is taking less than my processor. That is very tempting for a media center in my bedroom, as you could hide it behind the rear of the tv and use a bluetooth remote to get through the screen without a problem.
Why a 320gb 5,400 rpm drive? are they out of their minds. You can save money on the OS, but you have to buy the drive you will never want to use?
I think this review is too positive. that is some dire performance and there are many flaws with this range.
Firstly, the EDGE HD range was atom, then it moved to AMD E450, now its back at Celeron? Meanwhile they have the VS range which is trouncing this HD range, even if its more expensive – so far its only been AMD APU.
To confuse matters, Sapphire want you to save money on the operating system, yet they force you to buy the rubbish hard drive and some of them don’t have bare bones options as far as I can tell.
And why no Linux support? this would be ideal for linux users. I could probably locate some of the drivers, or get them to work, but they should make a linux version of this machine or help the open source market develope for it.
Hey Zardon, it’s been a while ! i was searching you to talk with you about some project.
can we talk in private when you have a moment ?
i hope that you didn’t forget about me 🙂
take care 🙂