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.