The spectral response， cathode sensitivity， gain， resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of the super second-generation and the third-generation image intensifier were measured at the short wave cut-off of 550 nm， 625 nm and 675 nm for A luminant. Under 10^-1 lx illumination， the resolution of the third-generation image intensifier does not decrease after undertaking 675 nm short wave cut-off for A luminant， while the resolution of super second-generation image intensifier drops to 94% of the initial value； however， under 10^-4 lx illumination， the resolution of the third-generation image intensifier decreases to 90% of the initial value after undertaking 675 nm short wave cut-off for the A luminant， while that of the super second-generation image intensifier decreases to 85%of the initial value. In addition， the resolution decreases with the decrease of illumination. For the super second-generation and third-generation image intensifiers， although the parameters are the same under the illumination of A luminant， but when used in different short wave cut-off wavelengths， the performance of the third-generation image intensifier is better. Although the decline proportion of parameters for super second-generation image intensifier is higher than that of third-generation image intensifier under different short wave cut-off wavelengths， the difference is not obvious， so the performance difference during use is not obvious.