Hello fellas.

I was having a nice discussion with @walsufnir about resolutiuons and AA in another thread but that got locked by mods.

In his opinion of @walsufnir he prefers 720p with AA over 1080p without AA... in my opinion 1080p without AA will have a better IQ quality than 720p with at least 4xAA... so you need over 4xAA on 720p to start to match the IQ quality of 1080p without AA.

High resolution does requer less AA than lower resolutions.

Note. I mean AA in general that mean you using the same AA filter for comparison... different filter will give you different results.

So I found a brazilian video comparing 1080p vs 900p with/without 4xAA.

The conclusion? 1080p will always looks better than 720p... prefer 1080p over AA unless you have performance left to hold fps even with AA.

What do you think guys?

I will try found more example and make some test in my notebook with old games (I don't have a good video card).

I though making threads against other users weren't allowed?

Against? Are you serious? lol

so whats this? like a freestyle battle but for nerd?

bananaking21 said: so whats this? like a freestyle battle but for nerd?

Different opinions about different approaches for an interesting subject.

Battle?

I asked CGI opinion too... I guess he already made tests with resolutions and AAs.

Found in GAF.

1080p native vs 1080p upscalled... same AA.

When the differences were barely sub 720 and 720, the difference could be nailed down to better AA solutions, but the difference between 720p and 1080p is too great for mere AA alone to compensate.
Contrary to the notion that "720 with aa looks better than 1080p without", the 1080p image is always going to show more detail as theres a higher pixel density - the 720p image will appear smoother, but with lower overall detail, 1080p with a simple FXAA implementation outshines any configuration of 720p.

This isn't the situation with digital cameras and "megapixels", this is a straight up solid array of pixels in 32bit, arguing that 720p can look better is just a waste of time.

As long as you have a good upscaler, 720 with AA > 1080.

I agree to the point that a 4k game in PC barely will needs AA in the common screen sizes.