Quote Originally Posted by v_rr View Post
It simply means that at 8x AA is faster than the others grafic cards.
No, it means that if you add up all the framerates at 0xAA, and then add up all the framerates at 8xAA, and you figure out the percentage of performance lost, the HD3870 lost slightly less performance.

Look at it like this. Say you have 2 cards, One of them only runs a title at 10 fps, while the other runs it at 100 fps. However, when you enable 8xAA the first one drops down to 9 fps, but the other drops down to 80fps. If you look at that by percentages, then it would appear the first card is better for 8xAA.

This is one of the reasons I don't like using percentages when dealing with videocards. Give me 2 frame amounts, that's all that's required. One for minimum, one for average, I don't care about the max... Because calling something a 10 percentage difference might sound huge, but if it only had 20fps, then that's only 2 frames per second, which is completely negligible.

I don't think anyone here will disagree with me on the percentage thing. I've always complained about sites dealing with percentages