Geeks.com sent us over one of the best video cards on the market today: the GeForce 86000GTS with 256 MB VRAM and a crazy fast 675 MHz engine clock. The card is on the high side of the middle-end graphics cards compared to others available and it's currently selling below $200. In this article we will test the multimedia performance of the card as used in video playback and rendering support rather than its already well-benchmarked multiple times so far and well-known gaming abilities.
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Member since:2005-06-28
Actually, it's not unfair at all. You see, the article simply shows what happens when you upgrade an older PC. You see, it is NOT clear that if you upgrade a graphics card you will get so much better rendering times and video playback. Sure, you will get better 3D performance, but multimedia is NOT clear to everyone out there that it will be faster. And this is why I wrote the review: because I wanted to show to fellow videographers or even casual HD enthusiasts who don't use NLEs or apps that support GL, that they can clearly benefit from a newer card. I am pretty sure that a newer ATI card will perform equally well in the multimedia front: it's just that I have no way of testing it.
Hence, I find my article pretty clear as to what it was trying to achieve: a WAKE UP CALL to fellow media users. I know video semi-professionals who use an Intel card with their Adobe Premiere!!! I really hope that this article wakes them up because there is significant speeds up to be gained from a gaming card, even if your media app doesn't support Quadro GL or whatever other similar PRO card!
I am not sure how more clear this can be written as.
Edited 2007-07-19 10:47
Member since:2006-09-22
Umm, yes I thought that too after writing the first comment, you are right. IMHO if you've written that more explicitly in your review, I could realise that earlier and just say. "Oh, yes! good point" and write nothing an move on".
You are far more experienced than me in writing articles (I'm writing a blog about my personal experiences about programming and computers in a blog) but I'll say that anyway. Sometimes implicitly written intentions cannot be understood and some unnecessary noise can be raised by readers (like me. I just missed the point of the article).
Member since:2005-07-06
Going by your analogy, you're displaying a bias towards Ford. It's no different from the people who accuse ArsTechnica of having an "anti-Mac" bias - when, if anything, they simply have an "anti-bullshit" bias. A decided lack of context is demonstrated by the failure to realize that the same standards are applied to all their reviews - not simply those of Apple products.
Here's a rather telling question: would you have had the same objections if the comparison had *not* been made to an ATI card, but rather to an nVidia card of the same vintage?
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2006-09-22
When you use a rebranded ford to race with a ferrari,
race looks biased to ferrari. It's that simple.