[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“With the great deal of articles that we publish in regards to
NVIDIA and ATI display drivers, it is very evident that at this
time NVIDIA has the lead when it comes to the frame-rate
performance–with their Linux drivers performing nearly the same as
their Windows ForceWare counterpart. ATI has been struggling to
improve the performance of their fglrx drivers, and while they had
made strides last year (as noted by our ATI AYiR 2006), they still
have a great deal of work ahead of them. However, one of the areas
that often is not mentioned in Phoronix articles is the image
quality between ATI and NVIDIA’s hardware with their respective
drivers. In this article today we will be looking at both company’s
image quality under Linux in video playback and gaming
environments.“Before jumping directly to the image quality tests we will
briefly explain both ATI’s Avivo and NVIDIA’s PureVideo…”