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Old 1st October 2007, 03:44   #32  |  Link
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Originally Posted by fields_g View Post
Using the chart as an approximation roughly:
SAD - UMH - ME32
has the same quality as
SAD - ESA - ME7
and
SATD - ESA - ME4

However the FPS is 47 vs. 42 vs. 39 respectively. SATD is slowest, by not by too much. Even though SATD is 7-8% slower, the magic is that SATD, with computation (me-range increments), SATD gains quality much quicker and peaks much higher. Additionally, SATD ESA-me6 beats the quality of SAD ESA-me12 at the same FPS! Therefore, SAD ESA only has a place for me range less than 12.

So instead of telling people that ESA is only has benefits from me-7 through me-12, over other ME-types, you could tell them ESA picks up quality-wise where UMH stops. It seems a little more clean to me. I just hope the explanation is understandable.

Maybe I'm a little my willing to throw computation at it than others, but I think the average person ESA would usually do this anyway.
Except that on some sources, SATD is inferior to SAD as a metric

Anime in particular seems to suffer from this, in my experience.
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