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Media Performance is important to analyse as this will be a primary feature of the card so we started by analysing HQV results. We used a few other cards as comparisons with the HQV benchmark.
This HQV Benchmark from Silicon Optix are great tests of the playback quality of HD DVD, DVD and Blu-Ray movies. We used Catalyst 9.5 and Forceware 197.77 for our testing. It is worth pointing out that these tests are in some ways very subjective and are tied into not only the hardware, but the drivers. We have noticed some improvements lately with the recent Catalysts.
| HQV Test |
Sapphire HD5550 Ultimate
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Asus Bravo 220
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Geforce 9800
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Geforce 9600
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Geforce 9400
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Deinterlacing
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| Color Bar/Vertical Detail | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Jaggies Pattern 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Jaggies Pattern 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Waving Flag | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
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Image Enhancement
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| Detail Enhancement | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
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Noise Reduction
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| Noise Reduction | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Motion Noise Reduction | 10 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
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PullDown Detection
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| 3:2 Detection | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 2:2 Cadence | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 2:2:2:4 Cadence | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 2:3:3:2 Cadence | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3:2:3:2:2 Cadence | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 5:5 Cadence | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6:4 Cadence | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 8:7 Cadence | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 3:2 Cadence | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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Mixed Film and Video
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| Horizontal Scrolling Text | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Vertical Scrolling Text | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Total Score | 116 | 106 | 111 | 111 | 85 |
Our results verify that the ATI solution really delivers a quality image with our HQV media testing, outscoring all the nVidia cards on test today.
Again the Bluray acceleration from the ATI solution is marginally better and although these results are quite close, with a lower specification processor the variables would increase.
This just shows how far ahead ATI are right now in all ranges. nvidia need to step up. that 220 was never a good card.
That is a great card, very impressed for the money
Where’s the CrossFire numbers? Come on Zardon: No Slacking!
Its unfortunately not a self replicating card, but when I have two ill make sure and post the results 🙂
thats a really wicked little card for the price. surprisingly good
Yeah the temps are good for the passive cooler. seems a good solution for media
My buddy has one of these, he plays WOW on it, and Source games. handles 1920 resolution !
Sapphire are great, one of my fav companies
Great review thank you.
I had seen this card reviewed a while ago elsewhere and went to buy it, then forgot about it and realised I couldnt remember who made it, or the model.Just ordered one from OCUK
DX11, cool, decent game performance without AA, hardly any power draw and no noise.
Seems to be a winner 🙂
AMD really do rock. Awesome little board. Any bad cards in the 5 series? nope.
Very nice solution for the money, was impressed with temps
Very nice indeed. like the design too. quite attractive