Along with the 3D side of things in its recently released top-to-bottom range of GPUs, ATI also crammed what they call a next-generation video and display engine into the silicon, too. Christened
Avivo, it ups the drawing pixels game on consumer graphics hardware. Or so ATI claimed. The referenced technology discussion outlined what ATI had in a couple of whitepapers, rather than any empirical observation or measurement on actual hardware.
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