Born for HD: first review of G98-8400GS
PAGE 1: The Beginning of PureVideo HD
PAGE 2: PureVideo HD Gen2 still not perfect
PAGE 3: G98：PureVideo HD Gen 3
PAGE 4: Comparing the Die
PAGE 5: Frequency of G98
PAGE 6: Test bed and remarks
PAGE 7: VC-1: 1080P, King Kong
PAGE 8: VC-1 1080P De javu
PAGE 9: H.264 1080P X-MAN3
PAGE 10: H.264 1080P The Prestige
PAGE 11: MPEG-2 1080P Pioneer DEMO2006
PAGE 12: HD video data summary
PAGE 13: 3DMark06
PAGE 14: Final thoughts
Final thoughts
The release of G98-8400GS means A LOT to NVIDIA. A low end card with full VC-1 and H.264 decode, it is powerful enough to fight with its rival HD2400Pro, and invading the HD playback market full of red cards.
From the HD test it is clear to see G98-8400GS have 100% VC-1 decode ability, DAMMIT can use this to attack NV no more.
The con is in the H.264 playback. but that’s not much. CPU usage higher than G86 about 6% while CPU is a Celeron 430.
Though HD 2400 Pro has a better performance in VC-1 and H.264 decoding, its VC-1 decoding ability can hardly use by other software like KMplayer and etc.( It’s heard that recently already got solution to fix this issue ). In this situation G98-8400GS can surely gain some of the HD playback market.
In other ways, NV has weakened G98-8400GS’ 3D performance by throwing over 8SP, make G98-8400GS can not compare to G86-8400GS.It is clear what NV thinking is: if you wanna play game and watch HD video using by hardware decoding? Buy a 8800GT instead.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:21 am
D8M has released? H.264 Decoding CPU utilization rose Instead, the not ideal.
December 5th, 2007 at 10:40 am
@ Guilit
that’s only a few percentage @ celeron 430 so that’s nothing to worry about.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
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January 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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January 17th, 2008 at 1:20 am
In the sentence “With the bandled different I/O metal backboard…” the third word should be “bundled.”
I’m sure it’s a artifact of translation, but I’d like to suggest using “CPU intensive” instead of “CPU sucking.” In the USA “sucking” has some rather vulgar connotations; i.e. when someone says something ‘sucks,’ they’re not offering polite criticism.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Thanks for your suggestion! you konw, i saw some other reviews write like that, so i followed..
anyway, i am going to fix the words. Thanks Fred.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Nvidia can take the purevideo HD and EAT IT! It is clear in these tests that the nv cards require 300% more processor cycles than ati’s humble 2400. So i wouldn’t be so sure that nv can attack ati in the video department. As for mpeg2 you must really be the king of jerks to encode anything in mpeg2HD.You need 3 times more bandwidth for the same quality. And yes atis hd capabilities kick in whatever player you use. At least with bsplayer and klite megacodec pack i run hd 1080p videos with an ati2400pro and an intel E2160@2700mhz with just 1% cpu.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:40 am
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