- So, we just came off the back of testing
the XFX RX 590 and we were comparing
that against some Nvidia cards,
and I couldn't help but notice that there was
some kind of a difference in image quality,
and then some people were asking in comments
over the last few months for me to investigate this,
and so today we're gonna pull out the Sony A7S2,
which is the main camera that we film on here,
which has some Carl Zeiss lenses,
we're gonna be recording off a 4K monitor,
which is the BenQ monitor, pretty photo-accurate monitor,
then we're gonna be comparing the images after the fact,
and then going very deep into that image
to a pixel-type level, to see if we can discern
any differences between an AMD graphics card,
which is their latest RX590, and then compare that to
the RTX2070, then we take the video and the images across
to a 4K monitor, which is photo-accurate,
and then examine these side-by-side.
One thing we will say when we're doing the testing,
is we noticed straight away was,
that Nvidia colors can look washed out
if you don't change a setting in the Nvidia control panel.
For some reason, by default, it has the 16 to 232
in the video settings, if you change this to 0, 255,
then your blacks and also your image in general will
look similar to that of AMD's.
Without side, lets see what other differences
there are in 5 different games.
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So AMD and Nvidia use a technology on their
graphics cards called Delta Color Compression.
This differs from the maker, to the maker in that
they use different algorithms.
And hence, at the core the image that comes
out on your screen will inherently look different,
due to these companies using these two different algorithms.
Since the GTX 10 series however,
Nvidia has made a public note that
their compression technology is very, very efficient
in that it will save bandwidth
when an image is being processed.
Not a whole lot however, on AMD's side,
is known about their Delta Color Compression,
though one thing for sure is, is when I did the
recent review of the XFX RX590, as I said at the intro,
I thought there was a difference
when it came to actual detail and not colors,
when it came to playing Dota 2.
And so I decided to investigate this with 5 games here today
and so the first thing we did of course
was set that color difference in the
Nvidia control panel which, I recommend everyone
with an Nvidia card definitely do this.
But after we got to this stage,
we noticed that from the far view on the 4K monitor,
there wasn't a whole lot of difference,
like, if you looked at these images
and you did blind A/B tests, the majority of people
I guarantee you would not notice any difference between
these two graphics cards if they had
the same frame rates, and also the same
graphics settings, on the same monitor.
Anyway, digging deeper into the details here,
I'll first of all pull up Black Ops 4 for you guys,
where I was testing the single player at 4K ultra settings,
and I dropped it down to 30 frames per second because
we're really just looking for image quality here.
And this was the one of two games out of the five games
we tested here today, where I at a pixel level thought
there was really no difference.
It didn't look worse on one, or the other.
So when we looked at the tiles for example,
they look pretty much the same.
We went over to the rocks and then the shadows,
and then the vehicles, and they all look pretty similar.
There really was no difference in the colors either,
so there was real no clear winner
when it came to Black Ops 4.
However, moving over to Dota 2,
there definitely was a difference in detail,
and I noticed this when it came to
pixel peeping on the grass, and also on the walls,
and I thought there was a little bit of detail as well,
a difference in favor of the AMD on the flag itself.
So, when we match these images up as close as we could,
and keep in mind this is very hard
to get an exact static image match on these,
so we did test over different images multiple times,
to sort of weed out the variants.
I did think there was a tad bit more detail
to be had on an AMD card at 4K ultra settings,
when it came to comparing the RX 590 versus the RTX 2070.
So for Dota 2 I would give a slight victory
to the AMD graphics card, however, ironically enough
when it came to the performance figures,
the AMD graphics cards were performing lower
than their Nvidia counterparts,
more than they should when it came to Dota 2.
However, moving over to Overwatch now
when we went to the same map at the same area,
there was some places, or objects that we could compare
side by side from AMD to Nvidia,
and we saw that the rock and also the house,
the roof, the tiles on the roof,
and also the shadows underneath the wooden roof on the left,
there was no real big difference here,
I couldn't discern any winner out of the 2.
I thought for what it was worth,
these two graphics cards pulled off
pretty much a draw when it came to Overwatch.
Also, the red tree, that was pretty much
the same so Overwatch had no clear winner.
But moving over now to Far Cry 5,
and here was a little bit of a weird one
because the Nvidia colors definitely
looked different to the AMD colors.
Around the house, the AMD, especially near the water,
looked a little bit washed out, as opposed
to the Nvidia looking a little bit more bluer.
And then when it came to some of the
other parts of the map as well,
I thought detail was a little bit better
on the Nvidia card in this game.
So for Far Cry 5 I would give the edge here
to the RTX2070 over AMD's RX590.
But now we move over to Forza Horizon 4
and I thought this was a clear win for AMD.
When we looked at the license plate for example,
on the car, the same checkpoint spot,
I noticed that it was a lot more detailed
on the RX590 as opposed to the
Nvidia graphics card, the RTX2070.
Also some other points, like the exhaust itself,
when we matched it up I just felt
the detail was better there as well,
as well as the center writing.
And this in my opinion was probably the biggest difference
of all the games we tested here today.
And AMD in this title as well does
perform better Nvidia, at least when we
compare it to the majority of titles in the averages.
But now it's time I guess, to zoom out
of this whole equation and just take a look and a step back.
And that is when you compare the videos side by side,
there is real no obvious difference.
I mean it's nothing to write home about and say:
"This one is definitely better than this one."
And it's I guess no real big reason to go out
and purchase either card over one another.
I would, however, like to see Nvidia
definitely fix those color settings from the get-go,
in that they don't default to washed-out colors,
I think that's nothing to really be proud of,
and I'm not sure why they do this to begin with
because I know this problem has existed for a few years now.
So, Nvidia I'd like you to fix this setting,
so people can get deeper blacks and whiter whites
in their games, not have a washed out image.
But ultimately however, from this video
I probably learned that I'm a visual type
of person as opposed to a audio type, or a kinesthetic.
So, I don't really care a whole lot for
differences in audio, or things that relate
to kinesthetic, but when it comes to visual stuff,
if I notice something I'll then go in detail about it,
and I guess this video spawned from that OCD-ness.
Anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's video,
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and also let us know in the comment section below,
have you noticed a difference between
AMD and Nvidia graphics cards in terms of image fidelity?
If you have, was there one game
it was more apparent in than the other?
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