ATi's Anti-Aliasing compared

[risqu3]

*The main reason I'm doing this is because i am intrigued by the performance hit the 4870x2 got when Quality AA mode was enabled whereas the GTX295 did not, you can check it out on the original article by HOCP HERE*

I just loaded up one small area and took a few pictures, all the way from 8xAA to no AA in quality and standard mode (Adaptive and normal) settings used were:

AA @ 8x Edge detect selected from the drop down box. (24x Effective)
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing @ QUALITY Slider (moved to the right)

pictures are taken @ 1920x1200

you can browse the flickr i set up while doing this, and while the room is dark I'm probably going to try to do this on a brighter place in FC2, AC, and maybe grid if it doesn't crash on me.


Post your own pictures/info about Quality AA vs Normal AA.


Drivers used:

Driver Packaging Version	8.561-081201a1-072276C-ATI	
Catalyst® Version	08.12	
Provider	ATI Technologies Inc.	
2D Driver Version	7.01.01.849	
2D Driver File Path	/REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000	
Direct3D Version	7.14.10.0630	
OpenGL Version	6.14.10.8304	
Catalyst® Control Center Version	2008.1201.1504.27008

 

[Xazax]

Just so you know, ATI does have "better" AA but there implementations of it is pretty horrible, whenever you really start to crack up the AA, to x24/x16 ATI cards take a huge performance hit. Compared to Nvidia which have the highest mode which is 16xQ CSAA, They dont take a big hit.\

Here this article is better comparison of the AA

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341&p=11

As you can see there almost no differnece to the naked eye

 

[S3th13]

I've always noticed ATi card to have terrible drivers and AA, but usually better image quality over all. Although, I still use a 4870 because of the great frame rates.

 

[Eruditass]

this is why I am fine with 1080p with 2xAA w/ transparancy