Which settings are on by default in Radeon vs Geforce?

[poohbear]

Hey all, i'm trying to run benchmarks to see exactly how much better my GTX 680 is over my Radeon 5870, but there are some quality settings in the Geforce panel that i don't recall seeing in radeon. I'm running all the quality settings maxed, so in some benchmarks its not much of an improvement, ofcourse i understand that's cause there are some quality settings i turned on that didn't exist in the Radeon CP.

So, here are the ones i don't recall seeing:

Ambient occlusion: i set this to quality (default off in Geforce CP), is this even optional in the Radeon CP?
AA: FXAA. i don't even recall seeing an option in the Radeon CP outside the "AA mode" option. I set it this to "on" in Geforce. Is there an equivalent setting in Radeon?
AA transparency: I set it to 2x supersampling. I don't recall seeing such an option in Radeon CP? was it there? does this have a big performance hit?

any other settings that i should turn off to get a fair comparison? cheers.

 

[n0x1ous]

Hey all, i'm trying to run benchmarks to see exactly how much better my GTX 680 is over my Radeon 5870, but there are some quality settings in the Geforce panel that i don't recall seeing in radeon. I'm running all the quality settings maxed, so in some benchmarks its not much of an improvement, ofcourse i understand that's cause there are some quality settings i turned on that didn't exist in the Radeon CP.

So, here are the ones i don't recall seeing:

Ambient occlusion: i set this to quality (default off in Geforce CP), is this even optional in the Radeon CP?
AA: FXAA. i don't even recall seeing an option in the Radeon CP outside the "AA mode" option. I set it this to "on" in Geforce. Is there an equivalent setting in Radeon?
AA transparency: I set it to 2x supersampling. I don't recall seeing such an option in Radeon CP? was it there? does this have a big performance hit?

any other settings that i should turn off to get a fair comparison? cheers.

Someone correct me if im wrong, but i believe you would want to set ambient occlusion to off to do a fair comparison with a Radeon. I believe FXAA = MLAA for Radeons. not sure about supersampling but im guessing you would turn it off for a fair comparison.

 

[JAG87]

AO doesn't exist on Radeons, turn this off for fairness.

FXAA is the equivalent of MLAA, but it is less performance hit than MLAA. Again turn this off on both cards for fairness.

Transparency AA is the equivalent of Adaptive AA, again this should be turned off on both for fairness.

 

[poohbear]

ok thanks for clarifying and explaining! I remember i always had Adaptive AA off cause it was too much of a performance hit on my 5870... but on my GTX 670 @ 2x supersampling (Transparency AA) its hardly noticeable...