8800 vs 9800

[Tempered81]

I was checking out the 9600gt sli Vs. 3870 crossfire comparison over at techspot.
http://www.techspot.com/articl...deon-hd3870/page5.html

I noticed something interesting about the geforce 9 series... It doesn't hardly take any performance hit at all when Enabling 4xAA and 16xAF. This may be the biggest advantage for the 9 series.

In fear, the 9600 sli went from 93 fps to 91 fps when going from NOAA and NOAF to 4xAA and 16xAF. If you tried to pull that off on a 8800gtx or other G80, You'd take a hefty performance hit. Probably like 93 fps to 60 fps.

I see this being the big advantage with the 9800gtx, It's going to run games in medium to low res like 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 800 and allow to really crank up the Anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering with out losing frames. Think of how this is going to make games like cod4 and crysis look and perform.

It would appear like it was running at 1920x1200 yet perform like it was on 1024x640

Just a thought.

 

[Keysplayr]

That new compression algorithm thingamajigowatchamacallit. Perhaps?

 

[Cheex]

Originally posted by: jaredpace

I noticed something interesting about the geforce 9 series... It doesn't hardly take any performance hit at all when Enabling 4xAA and 16xAF. This may be the biggest advantage for the 9 series.

In fear, the 9600 sli went from 93 fps to 91 fps when going from NOAA and NOAF to 4xAA and 16xAF. If you tried to pull that off on a 8800gtx or other G80, You'd take a hefty performance hit. Probably like 93 fps to 60 fps.

Very good observation Jared.

Is that the "free" AA I've been hearing talk about??

A point of note though...That holds true for FEAR using SLI. The single 9600GT took a big enough hit. Also, the 9600GT SLI, took similarly big hits in other game titles.

 

[Piuc2020]

It seems NVIDIA optimized AA from the G92 (well according to some people, they actually FIXED something that was wrong to begin with) in the G94 which is why AA seems to take less of a performance hit versus the G92...however FEAR is an isolated case and AA does take a hit on performance on the 9600GT on other games (especially when not in SLI), not as much as you'd expect and the card certainly performs great with AA but I would hardly call that kind of performance merit a "free AA" claim.

This little AA thing is what keeps the 9600GT close to the 8800GT in so many tests.

 

[bryanW1995]

if they can get that to work on lots of modern titles, esp gpu-killers like crysis, then I'll be eating my words and a lot of our members will be VERY happy to get a $399 upgrade in 5 weeks. Imagine actually running 4xAA/16xAF in crysis...at 19x12...

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
if they can get that to work on lots of modern titles, esp gpu-killers like crysis, then I'll be eating my words and a lot of our members will be VERY happy to get a $399 upgrade in 5 weeks. Imagine actually running 4xAA/16xAF in crysis...at 19x12...

Noooo... 5 weeks... darn step-up ends on the 12th of March

 

[Tempered81]

well you have the gx2 on the 11th march, or the 9800gtx on the 30th march