Page Title: Image Quality: Anisotropic Filtering Continued
Category: GPUs & Graphic Cards
Type: Reviews
Posted By: Shamino
Date: May 14, 2007, 3:55 am
Source: ATi
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To be crazier, I put the 2 "horsies side by side". Remember, this is a banner hanging on the wall like 20 in-game meters away from me and 3 stories high up. To be zooming in like this is kind of ridiculous, but what the heck!
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No clear conclusion, but if you look more towards the left of the horse, you may find that the lines on the head, mouth leg, seem to be a little sharper on the NVIDIA.
Do you like vegetation? Oh, I love vegetation! 3D rendered ones especially!
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Vegetation seems to be a fair bit more different. Here, you can acutely see that the 8800GTS renders the closer bunch of leaves sharper, yet rougher. There's a clearer distinction in colors of bunches of leaves on the GTS. This may also mean slightly more aliasing with the resultant effect being some "texture swimming" during movements of your character or as the wind blows.
How about in another more popular game, such as Battlefield 2142? Also ran at 1600 x 1200, 16x AF, Best Anti-Aliasing Settings - Wide Tent 16x Sampling on ATi X2900XT and 16x Quality on NVIDIA.
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At normal view screen size you can already tell the difference. Look at the gun, that's closest to your character, you can see it starkly sharper on the 8800 compared to the 2900. Notice especially the words and buttons on the gun. Words are sharper and so are the finer details on the buttons on the card below. Even the dirt track further away from the character looks sharper rendered on the 8800.