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[–] commander@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I buy XFX. I think Sapphire is really well regarded. I feel like I had a Sapphire ATI card a long time ago. Pretty sure XFX and Sapphire are the major time tested brands. You can probably be good buying the cheapest brand though

[–] IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh. I like doing a round 4x in Iris and then converting it down and doing a 4x in Proteus. A lot of times Iris is enough. The newer starlight mini everyone says is way better especially with not making terrifying faces when there's not enough data but I'm not subscribing again for that

[–] IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is Iris much faster than you, also how do you convert it?

[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Iris does seem faster to me compared to Proteus. Didn't see much use for me from like Gaia compared to Proteus. I convert down resolution with Handbrake with a pretty high quality target for h264 and then run it again in topaz with Proteus. 4x with Iris, than resolution back down by 4 and then 4x back up with Proteus. I feel like Iris + Proteus gives a real good result for low resolution content

[–] IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If you have the full settings with Iris and Handbrake for me in a screenshot, thank you. I wanna upload some content when I'll return to Reddit.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Iris I always use medium video quality source. Anything that needs low usually looks terrible on the upscale

[–] IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, may I ask why you downscale and then upscale again rather than just take what Iris gives you

[–] commander@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Iris is really good with faces. That's it's design. The reason is going from a high res up 4x takes too long and downscaling fuzzes up the picture a bit so things don't get too smoothed out when you upscale a 2nd time. Also there's a resolution limit on the upscale so can't get too large