XGI Volari V8 versus Deltachrome S8 (7)
Jon 7 Oct 2004

Image quality :

Like most cards, both the Volari V8 and the Deltachrome S8 support dual display and feature TV-out in standard. Also, both are able to display HDTV 1080p images for the best TV pictures possible. 2D image quality wass exceptionally good on both cards, as is video overlay and multi-display capabilities. 

That said, the Volari V8 TV-Out seemed far better than the one used in the Deltachrome S8. Texts were surprisingly clear and sharp using the V8's TV-Out. The V8 natively supports HDTV output as the TV-Out is able to output in HDTV resolutions.

HDTV :

Last but not least, we decided to end this tests with a HDTV test. We noticed that many of you are paying attention to HDTV support of graphics cards. To test HDTV performance, we measure the CPU load when playing a HDTV movie, in this case the clip "Magic of Flight" with Windows Media Player. 

The score measured here is in %, so the lower the score, the better.

All the cards seem to have very close performance with HDTV, the difference between all the cards being very small. 
That said, despite S3 touting the full HDTV support of its cards, the Deltachrome seems to have the biggest CPU load when watching HDTV movies.

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