Pc Anti Aliasing option help

[HoloDust]

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