what if I told you we could offload SMA
a onto hardware rather than software
okay
to give yourself a little bit of
overhead all right what do you think I
mean just see how you're doing this all
right well one study these two images I
brought up a shadow of the Tomb Raider
it is all running off of our pink build
that we did live a number of months ago
and is literally the the clone of each
other except for one of them has a
hardware best based SMA a the other one
has no a wear so but this is all running
off of a rising 3d you yep
can can you tell the can you tell the
difference it's pretty pretty slight I'm
seeing a little bit here and what looks
like some kind of rafters or something
don't you study the the edges the yeah
jaggies maybe like on the the star here
yeah I mean you can see a little bit I
mean it's not here but yeah you can
definitely see it on the star so we're
looking at a cloned image so I a certain
seems like a certain angle so you see it
right here so there's like some wood
that's been nailed into the cross the
window but you can see it's pretty
pronounced here I'm here you're getting
major stair-step so do you think this
this could be a good way to give
yourself a little bit of overhead on a
budget system it depends on how much
this cost I mean this is a hardware
solution so I'm guessing this external
you're doing something to the HDMI
stream you want to look at another game
yeah maybe a different game alright so
we booted up pub G aka player unknown to
battlegrounds gordon's kind of going
over the the details what are you seeing
so we're running 720 basically
everything low because you need higher
frame do we even turned off vsync major
jaggies are on the hands I mean it's
slightly better around the arms not that
much so I think it's very slight here
and but one of the I think what I find
is a lot of a it's sort of sometimes you
hit some angles and it's more effective
the question is are you gonna play a
game looking at the screen like that if
it doesn't really improve it that much
then I don't know how much I would pay
for whatever this hardware solution is I
don't even know what it is well let me
introduce you to got it right here
Maher says M cable I don't she check it
out this is the the gaming edition I got
to chat with them at e3 and I'm just
barely now going around to testing out
so this is promising a hardware based
SMA and also you know a little bit of
grain control some chromatic aberration
yeah well I was kind of warning because
on Tomb Raider earlier there the grain
seems slightly different to me I
couldn't quite nail it so yeah all the
hardware all the rendering is actually
based in the the HDMI itself which we
have plugged in to the monitor on the
right and it does require a USB plug to
plug in for power and they do say lack
lag-free which is interesting which I
you know I've I've watched some other
people's videos and they say yeah
they're not seeing a ton of leg really
be introduced so the the real kicker
here is the price so this is the the 3
foot version in a clocks in at 120 with
a 6 foot version clocking it at 150 yeah
I gotta say yeah the for 150 to 120
you're looking at getting me a bigger GP
or my first GPU I'm not seeing the the
pronounced image quality improvement
that you're seeing in the back of that
box I think it's probably there in
certain situations but if you're playing
pub GE are you gonna stop to admire it
and I again my issue is I I would rather
have a fatter GPU out or they have more
frame rates I'd rather have higher
resolution and I'd rather have better
textures I mean we're we've got things
cranked down so low here the textures
are just horrible maybe it's just this
just too much too much to for the car
for that
to fill in in real time i I'm kind of
warning if there's certain situations
where it may shine a lot more than this
maybe we're almost aiming too low like
what would this look like with a 580 at
say borderline 1080 you turn off a would
it help so we switched over to try a
little some different Gordon tell us
what we did so we thought maybe we aimed
a little too low with that apu although
very realistic circumstances and we took
main gears incredibly epic f 131 machine
which yes i'm still got to review that
baby as an 18 core core i9 in it and to
1080 x and sli custom water loop and
everything we turn off sli and we also
are just running this trying to simulate
a lower in graphics card we are running
at 720p everything very low in fact as
far as I can tell everything the same as
what we did on the rising apu but we are
seeing a very pronounced difference
whereas earlier you really had to just
stop and look and to see the difference
is I'm seeing it everywhere in pub G now
you could immediately tell the
difference on this setup but on the AP
we couldn't tell and I'm I'm at a loss
to explain why but I'll say you can just
start tell just looking at the shoulder
the aliasing is improved over over where
it's just jaggies on the without this
you know special cable you can
definitely tell the difference it's real
it's not it's not kind of one of those
you have to to stop and look for the
difference and I gotta say it is it's
impressive to do that real time AAA in
hardware but I'm at a little bit I will
say I'm a little bit of a loss to
explain when you're gonna use this in a
practical application on the PC I'm not
I'm not sure you would ever get to the
point where you wouldn't want to take
your 120 dollars two hundred and fifty
dollars and just buy the next step up
graphics card it definitely does look
better but you know if you had say a 960
you know gtx 960 would you buy one of
these hdmi cables instead of going out
and
yeah you know saving a little more and
buying a ten sixty or ten seven and ten
seventy where the parts are I got to say
I'm you really got to think carefully we
should probably do some more testing
Muncie I'm surprised yeah why the the
radion didn't work as well as the yeah
I'm a g-force but we what we really need
to do is put a very low-end graphics
card again maybe a little bit more of a
step up from the APU but just to see but
it's not made up it does work can you
justify it not so sure think carefully
but it definitely does work so you know
hey it's actually kind of cool