Fermi GF100 Video Cards To Support 32x AA

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Soleron said:

ssj12 said:

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but you know that 32x AA will be added to ATI GPUs. Makes no sense not to. Its like 16x AA. It was I believe originally on Nvidia GPUs, then ATI added it through firmware.

Probably. AMD was the first and only vendor to do 24xAA though; Nvidia didn't adopt that.

It won't make real games actually look better; 24xAA didn't. SSAA apparently does though I don't have firsthand experience with that.

that probably because it makes no sense. Why did they waste time with 24xAA? That goes against the basic nature of doubling power. 1xAA, 2xAA, 4xAA, 8xAA, and 16xAA all make sense because it doubled the AA from the last making a noticable difference. I dont think a small jump like 16X to 24x would make much difference. I think AA levels are probably only noticable, mostly using a giant monitor, when its double the old value. Since more people are using TVs as PC monitors it only makes sense to develope this sort of thing.