64xQ FSAA with GTX 295 quad SLI Possible

[jasonelmore]

With the new 185 beta drivers released we are starting to see the 295's feature's unvield. And apparantly 64XQ FSAA is possible via the Nvidia Control panel according to this story.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6..._295_quad_SLI/

The combination of the Geforce driver 185.20 Beta and four GT200b GPUs also known as GTX 295 quad SLI is capable of the so called 64xQ FSAA. For this each graphics processor calculates 16xQ FSAA, the results are combined and applied to the image currently rendered. But 16xQ FSAA is not 16x MSAA but 8x MSAA with eight additional Coverage Samples (16 Coverage Samples altogether).

Chris Ray took a screenshot of the driver option, but game screenshots or benchmarks with are not available yet. Although Nvidia's latest dual GPU card is quite powerful, as our GTX 295 preview revealed, even a quad SLI setup might have to suffer from a noticeable impact on the performance when displaying with 64xQ FSAA.

[STaRGaZeR]

With the new 185 beta drivers released we are starting to see the 295's feature's unvield. And apparantly 64XQ FSAA is possible via the Nvidia Control panel according to this story.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6..._295_quad_SLI/

Maybe they'll reach ATI's 8xAA quality now?

[Warboy]

Maybe they'll reach ATI's 8xAA quality now?

Your sarcasm is funny. That is sarcasm right?

[Shintai]

4x is enough for me.

[dan7777]

are these cards guna be worth it ? upgrade from a gtx260-216 may step up

[jasonelmore]

well tommarow's the big day. I can't believe there have'nt been any leaked photo's of EVGA's or XFX's cards or any other company.

[Der_KHAN]

ridiculous...

like that's gonna help me get AA in GTA4 or TAA in Crysis...

[Xello]

Pretty ridiculous, can't wait to try it!

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

so this is 64 passes of anti aliasing per frame?

this thread title should be changed to "64xQ FSAA with GTX 295 quad SLI Impossible, but still listed in the menu"

[giorgos th.]

oh yeah......64xQ would be awsome for a slideshow....

[dan7777]

wonder if crysis wars will be playable maxed out of course with max AA ??? anyone any ideas

[jasonelmore]

so this is 64 passes of anti aliasing per frame?

this thread title should be changed to "64xQ FSAA with GTX 295 quad SLI Impossible, but still listed in the menu"

Snipe trolls another nvidia thread

[dan7777]

Snipe trolls another nvidia thread

why not ??? lol

[Sr7]

so this is 64 passes of anti aliasing per frame?

this thread title should be changed to "64xQ FSAA with GTX 295 quad SLI Impossible, but still listed in the menu"

lol that would be a completely blurred mess. No this is 64 samples.

[Macadamia]

64 coverage samples, 32 in others. And it's alternate samples so you see only 16x CSAA in screenshots.


(Aka this is the same deal with ATI's Temporal AA, although that one had a 60fps framerate pre-requisite)

[Sr7]

64xQ gives 64 true samples. Without the Q (for "Quality") you are going to have some true samples and some virtual samples, so absolute quality is lesser but perf is higher.

[AbelJemka]

GTX already struggles with AA due to lack of framebuffer...
Will be great to see this with Jedi Knight, may be playable with game

[Sr7]

GTX already struggles with AA due to lack of framebuffer...
Will be great to see this with Jedi Knight, may be playable with game

Err which GTX are you talking about? The 260 and 280 have 896MB and 1GB respectively...

[bedlamite]

4x is enough for me.

Well, I agree.

[Vinas]

Maybe they'll reach ATI's 8xAA quality now?

QFT

Nvidia graphics have always been much worse quality IMO. Switching from the 8800 series was night and day difference.

EDIT: Although is 64x really necessary? Do people game with 60ft screens or something?

[Simps]

OMG, can't wait for pics of games running high res and 64xQ AA. That must look good, and with quad sli and a core i7, a lot of titles should be playable with 64xQ, on some native resolution of 19" - 22" monitors.

[Sr7]

QFT

Nvidia graphics have always been much worse quality IMO. Switching from the 8800 series was night and day difference.

EDIT: Although is 64x really necessary? Do people game with 60ft screens or something?

That's funny because most sites do IQ comparisons and always come to the conclusion that the IQ is identical.

They even show screenshots and you can diff them in photoshop and see how similar they really are.

[STaRGaZeR]

Your sarcasm is funny. That is sarcasm right?

Unfortunately not.

[joshd]

That's funny because most sites do IQ comparisons and always come to the conclusion that the IQ is identical.

No not identical. There are invariably small differences in the way scenes are rendered, even between different model cards, let alone ati vs nv.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

That's funny because most sites do IQ comparisons and always come to the conclusion that the IQ is identical.

They even show screenshots and you can diff them in photoshop and see how similar they really are.

lets not make this another IQ battle because we all know that:

a) its pointless

b) penny will become rabid in his ban-box if we do



my point earlier about the 64x AA being impossible was that each gpu has to do 16 samples of AA. Even if 4xGPUs worked well in real world situations (ati or NV) this would still be a giant load on the GPU and with the current gen I doubt it is possible to actually play games with this setting enabled.