nvidia or ati?

[HazeBlaze]

I heard ATI cards are better at anti-aliasing and overall picture quality.

 

[tbiggums]

yup

 

[Valtiel]

where did you hear that?

 

[mad_fitzy]

Matrox

 

[HazeBlaze]

Can the 7900Gt go over 8xAA on high settings?

 

[godman]

in what game?

 

[t2couger]

I heard ATI cards are better at anti-aliasing and overall picture quality.

this was correct until the 8800 gtx was released now Nvidia is on top as far as picture quality.

 

[tbiggums]

And what rez.

 

[Hameedo]

I heard ATI cards are better at anti-aliasing and overall picture quality.

Actually , that's because they can enable AA+HDR... and the X1900 series has a slightly better AF .. other than that there is no difference in image quality .
By the way .. ATI cards have 2X , 4X , 6X AA . They can't do 8X AA unless they're crossfired .

Nvidia cards have 2X , 2XQ , 4X , 8X AA ..they can't do 6X AA ..8X is better in image quality of course .. but it costs more performance than 6X .

any Geforce 6 and 7 card can enable 8X AA at any resolution .. BUT the cards limit their capabiltity to do 8X AA to a certain level .

For example : if you have a 6600GT .. you can enable 8X AA @ 1280 x 1024 in Hitman 2 .. BUT you can't enable that for NFS: Most Wanted .. instead you have to lower the resolution to 1024 x 768 to be able to use 8X .. what happened here is that the driver detected that you can't have any decent frames at that level of AA and resolution .


for 7900GT I think it can enable 8X at a resolution up to 1600 x 1200 .. Again that's my guess .. it could be wrong .

 

[AdamBomb42]

If you can afford an 8800, then go for it.

 

[cleeve]

Actually , that's because they can enable AA+HDR... and the X1900 series has a slightly better AF .. other than that there is no difference in image quality .

Nvidia is also notirious for 'texture shimmering', but you can get rid of that by setting IQ to 'high quality' in the Nvidia drivers.

 

[Hameedo]

Actually , that's because they can enable AA+HDR... and the X1900 series has a slightly better AF .. other than that there is no difference in image quality .

Nvidia is also notirious for 'texture shimmering', but you can get rid of that by setting IQ to 'high quality' in the Nvidia drivers.

You mean mipmap bias ?