Is AA needed for 4K?

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When gaming at 4K, setting insane AA options like 4x MSAA or even SSAA on games like Crysis 3 or Metro Last Light with maximum graphical settings turned on, it usually pulls framerates to around 30fps (which is still perfectly playable with 2 780 Tis). However, is there a need for such high AA settings at 4K?
 
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nikoli707
no, most reviews using sli/cfx gk110's or hawaii chips agree that the difference between no aa, 4xmsaa is not noticable at 4k resolution... thus they test with fxaa which is cheap and performance friendly, and they still debate whether it is needed or noticable. 4k performance will get here quicker than people think since hardware anti aliasing will not be needed anymore. they will come up with more exotic performance free smaa/fxaa alternatives which will free up gpu/cpu resources to concentrate on pixel pushing. also vram is very much reduced by using software based aa alternatives.
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no, most reviews using sli/cfx gk110's or hawaii chips agree that the difference between no aa, 4xmsaa is not noticable at 4k resolution... thus they test with fxaa which is cheap and performance friendly, and they still debate whether it is needed or noticable. 4k performance will get here quicker than people think since hardware anti aliasing will not be needed anymore. they will come up with more exotic performance free smaa/fxaa alternatives which will free up gpu/cpu resources to concentrate on pixel pushing. also vram is very much reduced by using software based aa alternatives.
 
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