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so when yesterday's video we took a look at AMD versus nvidia in terms of image quality that's coming out of your screen now we had a 4k sony a7s 2 and on this setup there were some subtle differences and when we zoomed in pixel by pixel we could notice that the AMD graphics card overall I thought had slightly better detail and the main determining factor of this was when we looked at static objects so yes we did capture this with a sony a7s 2 but we did have it in a controlled environment where the settings were exactly the same the position of the cameron was exactly the same and also the position of the monitor was exactly the same and now the reason we didn't use a capture card for this is because capture cards expose themselves essentially to compression of their own especially at 1080p we're not gonna get a accurate result whatsoever in my opinion if we use a 4k caption car then we may get some better results but again a 4k CAPTCHA card will still expose itself to some form of compression so I guess the idea is that we've sort of want to open Pandora's box in regards to this because I know there's a difference when we looked at it with the current setup we had and then we looked at it with our own eyes going back and forth both I and also my Video Editor use of we could notice a slight difference it was there and so if someone out there has may be really expensive gear like an 8k camera and an 8k monitor and they've got completely lossless maybe they can do a video comparison or they can get some really high res photos on an even better gear I'd like to see if there's an expert out there on visuals that could sort of weigh in on this but other than that we're also taking a look at the settings that we used initially and that was on the Nvidia graphics cards that sometimes with particular monitors and that's what we've found around here we've got over 6 different monitors that we tested this on half of the monitors defaulted to a setting called limited range and you have to change this not only I made a little mistake in yesterday's video and where I said it was the video glare settings but it's also a resolution setting as well that you can change the dynamic output and make sure that that's going the full dynamic range and so today we're doing some tests here as well this is with the capture car because you're going to easily capture differences in color when you look at these two settings and so what we decided to do was use the default setting on a HP monitor that we had here which defaults to limited and then we decided to test that versus full range and what we had was a clear difference in my opinion in overwatch the colors were a little bit more washed out especially on the wooden floors you could notice it there and then moving over to Far Cry 5 when we tested this side-by-side the water was definitely looking a lot more washed out than it was on the full range mode and then move over the last game that we tested was Rainbow six siege and that again had washed out colors versus the full range mode so if you guys have an Nvidia card it doesn't hurt to go into the control panel and then just go to your resolution settings make sure it's defaulting to full range if it isn't then you can go to the Advanced Options and then click full range and then lock that in because monitors for a very long time now have supported full range I believe some monitors back in the day didn't support this feature but I think a lot of years later this maybe should be an option that Nvidia asked people are you using an old monitor if so do you want to change this setting because it does make a big difference I feel like you're getting a better image when you're using full range it's not so washed up but also on top of that as we said in yesterday's video the image quality differences between the Nvidia and also the AMD graphics cards it's not a big deal I am just being pretty anal retentive about this stuff and sort of going into details but I do like to do that from time to time on the channel and I do like to also discuss with you guys in the comments on different things that we can try and also different methods that we can get help as a community grow and become more knowledgeable so I don't pretend to know everything and I'm far from knowing everything there is about the lousiest tech but always try to weigh in and sort of give my opinion on things especially when I go from testing different graphics cards from one brand to another and speaking of AMD vs. NVIDIA I've actually been using Nvidia graphics cards in my main rig for over six years straight now so when it comes to fanboy ISM arguments I don't really get involved in any of that I just simply do tests and then make recommendations for people and I always say get what is best for you and I will say in a lot of my reviews maybe what is best for me in my current situation but everyone out there in the world is different they've got different needs and if even subtle differences in image quality is one of those needs that you have then perhaps getting the AMD card is the right choice for you also another question that came up in the comments was turning on limited range versus full range does it affect FPS and at least in Rainbow six siege the in-game benchmark and also Far Cry 5 those benchmarks showed no difference whatsoever with the RT X 2070 now there's also another good question that came up and that was Delta color compression is there a way to disable this and unfortunately to my knowledge no because it's a hardware based solution that hidden video have been implementing on their graphics cards and apparently they've improved it with the RT X 2008 ested the RT X 2070 versus the rx 590 so in terms of trying to disable this I'd have no idea whatsoever on how you would even disable this if it's possible anyway what all comes down to it it is what it is and we just try and do our best to give you guys the best informed purchasing 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