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HoloDust on 19 March 2015
dane007 said:
HoloDust said:
Use SMAA for best bang-per-buck:



or if your setup allows for it super-sampling or downsampling for best quality.


i am only using a single 980 card. supersmapling would requried dual gpu as i have been told. Interesting pic you gave. so based on that 4smaa is equivalent to 8msaa with better performance?

SMAA is post-process filter, so it's pretty light on resources while giving great results. SMAA does have some slight blur though, and while MSAA is better at smoothing actual geometry, it does have a problem of its own (or at least that's how it used to be, haven't been following closely AA techniques for some time now):

Hopefully, someone with more knowledge will chime in (like Tachikoma) and give more thorough (and up to date) explanation(s).

 

EDIT: Here's a quite good article on FXAA, SMAA, MSAA and TXAA with pictures from Crysis 3 and benchmark comparison.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis3_6.html



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Mummelmann on 19 March 2015
dane007 said:
HoloDust said:
Use SMAA for best bang-per-buck:



or if your setup allows for it super-sampling or downsampling for best quality.


i am only using a single 980 card. supersmapling would requried dual gpu as i have been told. Interesting pic you gave. so based on that 4smaa is equivalent to 8msaa with better performance?

As in any kind of GTX 980 4GB? That should be capable of rendering most processes fully and at high resolutions like 1440p with good to decent frame rates imo.



Captain_Tom on 19 March 2015
dane007 said:

Noob question ,

 

I got  a question regarding AA option in game. At the moment i am using MSAA x8  for any games thats required. Just want to know its worth putting it on msaa x 8 or is 4msaa better option? To be honest i tried both but i can't tell the difference.

Haha MSAA x4 uses about 2/3rds the power, and the same with MSAA x2 compared to x4.



dane007 on 19 March 2015
Mummelmann said:
dane007 said:
HoloDust said:
Use SMAA for best bang-per-buck:



or if your setup allows for it super-sampling or downsampling for best quality.


i am only using a single 980 card. supersmapling would requried dual gpu as i have been told. Interesting pic you gave. so based on that 4smaa is equivalent to 8msaa with better performance?

As in any kind of GTX 980 4GB? That should be capable of rendering most processes fully and at high resolutions like 1440p with good to decent frame rates imo.

i have the evga ftw version 980 4gb . Sweet thanks for that