ATi Radeon 4000 Series Anti-Aliasing Investigation
Introduction
In a past article, I compared the image quality of ATi’s and nVidia’s latest hardware, but since there’s a lot left to cover with each vendor’s anti-aliasing, I decided to investigate the issue further.
This article will focus on the ATi 4000 series of cards (whose anti-aliasing algorithms are identical to that of the 2000 and 3000 series), while a future installment will cover current nVidia hardware. For this particular article I will use my trusty Radeon 4850.
Hardware
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (reference 3 GHz clock).
- ATi Radeon 4850 (512 MB, ATi reference clocks).
- 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4×1 GB, dual-channel).
- Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel G33 chipset, F7 BIOS).
- Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic.
- 19” Sony CPD-G420 CRT (maximum resolution 1920×1440).
Software
- Windows XP 32 bit SP3
- ATi Catalyst 9.4, high quality mip-map setting.
- DirectX March 2009.
- All games patched to their latest versions.
Settings
- 16xAF & AA forced in the driver, vsync forced off in the driver. .
- Since I’m on XP, all DX10 titles were run under DX9 render paths.
- Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
- All results show an average framerate.
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