Originally posted by: Pete
Thanks for the screenshots, Cainam. Yep, the two cards look similar standing still. ATi's 16xAF extends a little further on the floor, and I can detect *slightly* better AA on a few lines, but otherwise nothing major at all. Of course, nV's AF is supposed to be better in motion, so ATi's extended clarity may be less preferable to nV's ostensibly lesser texture shimmer.
i think that's a fair observation. on the second shot, where you can see the the diff of 16x af on the floor tile, if you look at the textures, the nv has a bit more detail, and actually, i like the color of the "night sky" a bit better.. but overall, i really don't think the quality of both are far better than we had a generation or two ago. i think nvidia has recognized the importance of IQ, and has worked hard on addressing that.
as i said earlier, i think ati has a sligher better aa scheme, and nv has a bit more detail in textures, but again, it only shows up in certain situation, and IQ is subjective, so someone else may certainly hold a different opinon. performance wise tho, i think at least so far, it's pretty well been proven ati's aa/af methods excel.
I'd be interested in your opinion in performance differences between the two as another "real-world" and apparently unbiased source, but I won't ask you to take time to do so, because I won't be buying one of these cards soon. It'd just be an exercise in statistics for me. 🙂 Those two CPUs seem pretty evenly matched, though I don't know if DAoC prefers one architecture over another as some games do.
well, if it means anything, daoc has an nvidia "the way it's meant to be played" logo on the splash screen, but i think most developers work closely with both nv and ati to put forth the best product they can, regardless of the video card brand. i mean, it wouldn't make sense from a marketing standpoint if you're game only played well on one platform or the other; you'd be alienating a good chunk of your market.
Thanks again for your efforts. I'm sure others have found your results interesting, too. I'll leave it up to them to bother you for performance results. 😉
heh.. no problem. i find it all interesting. i may run it later, but i think had ati's drivers worked correctly, ati would run a little better with hi aa/af and hi resolutions, but i wouldn't say drastically so. as far as cpu's, there's no doubt the p4 outperforms the amd, but it's age is starting to show, and were it a current generation athlon 64 the tables would be turned, tho again i think it would be a marginal advantage for the a64, not an earth shattering one.
BFG, I think that's what he meant--neither AF nor AA work on his ATi card above 10x7, as demonstrated by his first set of pics. His second set shows a difference between ATi's 16x and nV's 8x.
exaclty.
peace
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