HardOcp reports that GFFX ultra is canceled!

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Originally posted by Colossus


You had lost all respect from me. If you are dumb enough to think that there is NO standard on what 2x/4x AA or AF is then you are ignorant. There is a standard as to those settings have to support. So they can never look like atari style of graphics!

Actually there aren't...maybe if some directx verstion demanded hardware AA or aniso there'd be a standard, but as of now, there's no standard for what 2x anti-aliasing means.

If you decide to insist that there still is, how do you explain the quality differences from say...the good ol' voodoo5/radeon/gf2 days?

[Colossus]

I had read somewhere that there is a standard that card manufactures need to follow in creating a GPU for support of AA and AF. There are quite a few ways to supply antialiasing. Some use Multisampling or Superscaling. Depending on which approach a card manufacturer implements in the drivers/hardware determines the clarity of an image and speed.

[Sprout]

Originally posted by Colossus
I had read somewhere that there is a standard that card manufactures need to follow in creating a GPU for support of AA and AF. There are quite a few ways to supply antialiasing. Some use Multisampling or Superscaling. Depending on which approach a card manufacturer implements in the drivers/hardware determines the clarity of an image and speed.

Thing is that AA has become smoothvision for ATI, and quincunx for Nvidia (as far as multi-sampling is concerned). They're not claiming to be exactly like the other. In fact, I think this is much better, it gives the individual chip designers to develop better algorithms for AA. The problem is that one manufacturers AA implementation ends up not being exactly the same as anothers, making it very useful for them to post comparisons....and well, let's fact it, part of a reviewers job is to give their opinion.

I should hope, and am glad you feel free to disagree with them, but I would personally hate it if they stopped providing some pics from which a quality comparison can be made.

[Un4given]

Originally posted by Colossus
I had read somewhere that there is a standard that card manufactures need to follow in creating a GPU for support of AA and AF. There are quite a few ways to supply antialiasing. Some use Multisampling or Superscaling. Depending on which approach a card manufacturer implements in the drivers/hardware determines the clarity of an image and speed.

There are specific methods of AA, but there is no standard for how the hardware manufacturers implement them. Even if both cards use super sampling as their AA method, repeated reviews have shown that the quality of the end AA image, and the performance hit associated with it can vary from chip to chip.