Quote Originally Posted by 003 View Post
No, the GTX295 is faster than the 5870, and while the 5870 does have a near perfect AF algorithm, GT200 still has damn good AF, way better than R600 through RV770. In practice it is very hard to see the difference unless you run that tunnel program that is designed to show the difference.
nvidia does handle AF more efficiently but if you compare the 5870 to the 4890 the hit is much worse. its double the speed but gtexels are the same as 4890? so much for them telling us it didnt come with a performance hit. ATi has historically been known for doing graphics efficiently. this card completely forgets that. SSAA and the new AF are there to prove it. brute force methods like those might be inefficient but the image quality is great. i am expecting fermi to do the same. the cards are so powerful it doesnt really matter.