A Better/Faster/Smoother Solution to MPC+Madvr & PotPlayer (Page 4 of 5)

Hi, I'm running SVP at 60fps as that's the max I can get out of my 60fps 1080p 37" LG TV screen. (The screen is usually about 1 meter from my face so artifacts, halos, blurring, noise, etc. are readily detectable.)

Don't know if it matters, but I can't get the TV to work properly via HDMI cable with video cards (though it works fine via HDMI with tablets), so I'm doing everything through an RGB cable.

Installed Afterburner out of curiosity. Didn't touch any settings.

For 1080p material: material with average rendering time of 9ms showed GPU usage at 50%. With rendering time of 15ms showed GPU usage at 82%.
Same material with Madvr at 9ms rendering time showed GPU usage at 77% and at 16ms average rendering time GPU usage was 90%.

For 720p material: material with average rendering time of 12.5 ms showed GPU at 70%.
With Madvr, 83%.

BTW, I got Madvr to work better in the interim. So the difference between MPDN and Madvr is not quite so striking. Still MPDN scores noticeably better on 1080p and sometimes especially better when upscaling 720p. But Madvr produces a reliably clean picture, whereas in some cases MPDN can be noisy. Having said that, for me MPDN is the clear winner when it comes to picture quality.

I must disagree with this for a few reasons...

1. AMD does not have any more tendency to run hot than Nvidia does.  AMD's 3000, 4000, and 5000, and 6000 series GPUs all ran cooler and were less power-hungry than Nvidia's flagship GPUs at the time (9000 series up until the 500 series); note that I'm excluding dual-GPU models for obvious reasons.

2. Temperature and heat output are not the same thing - more heat output can give higher temperatures, but higher temperature doesn't necessarily mean higher heat output.  This is important because the current Radeon 200 series has quite high transistor density, which gives higher temperatures but doesn't mean higher heat output - this is the same case with Ivy Bridge and Haswell CPUs.

3. The Radeon 200 series reference air cooler was crappy. Models with the stock cooler are still available, but you'd be an idiot to buy them since there's literally only 2 models of for example the 290 on Newegg compared to like 70 models with non-reference coolers, and those 2 reference models are not the cheapest models either.  Nevertheless, most reviews used the stock cooler since the non-reference models weren't available back in the day, so for most people the temperatures in said reviews aren't going to be accurate unless the review specifically uses a card with an after-market cooler.

4. Radeon GPUs have a user-selectable maximum temperature setting in the drivers that is set to 95c by default for whatever reason, and users that don't want it as hot merely have to turn the setting down.

5. It would be silly to buy any GPU right now - we know the 300 series is coming this quarter.  Even if you buy an Nvidia GPU, you would still be able to take advantage of the according price-drops.

DISCLAIMER: My current PC uses an Intel integrated GPU and my (currently unplugged) discrete GPU is an old-ish Geforce 8800GS.

Did you have a model with the reference air cooler?  They look like this:
http://cdn5.thinkcomputers.org/wp-conte … -290-1.jpg

FYI, AMD's been basically using the same stock cooler since the 5000 series, which is no wonder it's as crappy as it is - it'd be like using a reference Nvidia non-Titan cooler on the Titan X.  This is very likely why there are literally only 2 SKUs available that use said cooler.

You guys are really crazy 
"Lets buy GTX980 for the some unknown "SuperResChroma", I've no idea what is that but is sounds great!'
http://wiki.mikejung.biz/MadVR_Chroma_U … ge_Quality

I originally bought mine to run DmitiRender, which is extremely power hungry on the GPU.
I don't use it anymore though _ I discovered too late that it had too many annoying artifacts.
I don't regret spending the money on it though...   

And your link Chainik, I can't see any differences in those screen shots at all _ I don't know what I'm looking for, but it must quite subtle.

Jeff R 1
I don't regret spending the money on it though...

so you were just waiting (searching?) for a "good enough" reason to buy it 

Well for one thing, what's your definition of 'low end'?  Some people would consider my current Pentium G3258 to be 'low end', even with my current WIP overclock of 4.1GHz.

Well for one thing, Kepler isn't all that great at GPU-compute...heck at times it's worse than Fermi.

That wouldn't by chance be the reason you had gotten that 290, would it?  Because indeed it certainly has good GPU-compute performance.

You have to look at it blind-folded to sense the difference with your third eye, young jedi

Hi, with all this settings of the the new player and the filters, i noticed a better quality of the frame interpolation. Is there a possibility to create a script for Megui to render this settings to a new file with x264.exe?

Well technically the likes of lanczos and bicubic aren't really that great of upscaling algorithms...