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SpecViewPerf7
The All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro isn't just for fun and games, and I'm sure some developers and multimedia authors are curious about how it would do in a professional OpenGL environment.
The results aren't bad, but they're a far cry from what Pro-level OpenGL cards are capable of. Then again, can those cards record TV, edit video, and play games at insane speeds? 'nuff said.
Image Quality
3D image quality was excellent, and on par with what the vanilla 9700 Pro is capable of. If you want to see how some games would look, I invite you to checkout that review.
One area of reviewing we're trying to address more is 2D image quality. We spend an awful lot of time working on our PCs, and in the case of the AiW 9700 Pro, video quality is very important.
We loaded up a 1600x1200 image David and I normarlly use in our video card reviews. I also pulled up several word documents with various sized fonts to judge the text rendering. The documents used white text on a black background, and vice versa. The screen resolution for all tests was 1600x1200 @ 85Hz on a Dell rebranded 21" Trinitron.
Scores are subjective, but having worked with many video cards the last few years, I got a pretty firm grasp on what card renders 2D better than the others. The scores will be out of 10, with 10 being excellent.
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All-in-Wonder 9700
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AiW VE
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ATi Radeon 9700
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MSI MX440-T8x
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Black Text (12Pt)
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9
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8
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9
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8
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Black Text (6Pt)
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8
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8
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8
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6
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White Text (12Pt)
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9
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9
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9
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7
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White Text (6Pt)
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8
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8
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8
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4
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Bitmap Quality
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9
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9
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9
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7
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All the ATi cards looked pretty much the same to me, but there is an obvious quality drop when moving to the MX440. The MX440 rendered white text on a dark background horribly, and in order not to lose my eyesight, I had to use the mouse to select blocks of text I wanted to read.
TV-Out Quality
I grabbed an AVI file of Futurerama (captured from a cable feed), and outputted it to TV on the AiW 9700 Pro, the AiW 8500DV, and on the AiW VE. I don't have a S-Video input on the television I used, so this was done via a composite cable. This should show the improvements made, if any, with the Cobra Engine.
First, the 8500DV...
... the VE...
... and the AiW 9700 Pro
I should note that the in order to acquire the image, I recorded the episode with the AiW VE. I then burned it to disc as a VCD, then recaptured it with the 9700 Pro, the VE and the 8500. What this test is supposed to illustrate then is the video capture quality of each card, and the resulting video output quality when using the same card to display the video. It would appear that the Rage Theater 200 and the Cobra Engine do improve upon the video quality, as the 8500DV image is the grainiest of the three.
I should also note that the Cobra Engine is more efficient with the faster GPU, and the encoding time was slightly less with the AiW 9700 Pro, than it was with the AiW VE.
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