For those of you who doubt the validity of the german benchmarks and the performance of the 8800GT 512mb with 8xAA, look at this..
Quoted from Bit-Tech review, although their tests only go upto 1920x1200 -
Link to article this was taken from.
It's a well known that the nVidia 8800GT Excels at 4xAA, but when 8xAA is enable it kinda just dies.. at least, I actually read all the reviews, so I knew about it, seems some of you are a little unbelieving to this possibility..
Will try and find some other reviews about it's poor 8xAA performance if I can get a chance, but I'm a bit busy in work at the moment..
This post has taken over an 1 1/2hrs to write!!
Quoted from Bit-Tech review, although their tests only go upto 1920x1200 -
Bit-Tech said:In Quake Wars, there are two different stories to tell because, depending on the anti-aliasing settings, there are two quite different performance characteristics to take in. The first is a disappointing one, if we’re honest, because the factory overclocked Asus EAH3870 TOP is quite a bit slower than the similarly-priced Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT when 4xAA is applied.
It’s as if Nvidia has been hard at work optimising its performance with 4xAA and the trend isn’t helped by the fact that RV670 doesn’t feature a hardware-based MSAA resolve unit, which means the final resolve stage of the anti-aliasing process has to be handled by the shader. Of course, this gives much tighter control over the quality of the pixel sub samples, as you move from fixed function to floating point calculations for the resolve stage.
What’s interesting is that when you move to 8xAA, things change quite drastically and the Asus EAH3870 TOP actually manages to outperform most cards. This is because Nvidia’s G92-based products appear to suffer under the heavy workload because of the 256-bit memory interface – RV670’s ring bus memory controller is likely to be the reason for this. At the same time, Nvidia products with larger memory bus widths (and sufficient framebuffer sizes) show more respectable performance in comparison to the otherwise faster G92-based products.
Link to article this was taken from.
It's a well known that the nVidia 8800GT Excels at 4xAA, but when 8xAA is enable it kinda just dies.. at least, I actually read all the reviews, so I knew about it, seems some of you are a little unbelieving to this possibility..
Will try and find some other reviews about it's poor 8xAA performance if I can get a chance, but I'm a bit busy in work at the moment..
This post has taken over an 1 1/2hrs to write!!