ATI Responds to NVIDIA's GeForce 7950GX2

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Originally Posted by mdzcpa

You think? I don't think so. There is no doubt the GX2 can push more FPS than the X1900XTX. Just about every review has the GX2 outpowering the 1900XT and XTX at every turn.

However, that's not to say that those who are more IQ driven might indeed select the ATI card over the Nvidia offering.

No bait intended. Its a real choice that needs to be made when you have games like Oblivion bringing all the single gpu cards to their knees.

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I think I agree with this statement, for what it looks like I honestly find very little IQ diffrence between top end cards from diff mfg's, though true that ATI till holds it down better then Nvidia. The problem (for me) is that I like playing everything at top resolutions/settings and maintain high fps, like they say, FPS is life.

IQ isn't as much of an issue with nV cards as it used to be although I much prefer the AA that ATi cards give you. I don't know about anyone else but the nV AA just looks blurry to me. I'm not even sure if there is any real difference but that was my impression. Also I like the "high impact" lighting style that you tend to get with the X1k cards.

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Originally Posted by DilTech

The first graph is pure, utter, BS!

8xAA on the NVidia card is running SUPERSAMPLING, 6xAA on the ATi card is MULTISAMPLING! It's not being at HQ that hurt nvidia so bad on that graph, it's frankly the fact that they specifically set NVidia over to supersampling, and made no mention on the graph.

Supersampling requires FAR more work than multisampling, like 5-10 times more work, as supersampling is applied to every single pixel, while multisampling is edges only. How many pixels in a scene are edges compared to the amount of pixels in total.

This is PR bull**** once again.

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That's correct, which is why the results do look correct.

8xS AA on NVIDIA hw is 4xMSAA + 2xSSAA, hence the huge performance drop.

Plus, there's the HQ vs regular quality.

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Obviously the SLI'ed 7950 card is more powerful in most situations, but it is amusing to see that the X1900XTX actually beats 2 of NVIDIA's high end cards in at least some situations.

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As an aside, I still can't fix the texture shimmering on my 7800GTX Go, even with HQ enabled and 4xAA/8xAF. Anyone know of a fix?