Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
additionally somethign is fishy with that hardware canucks chart, the difference between 4xAA and no AA is significantly higher than in every other review out there were 5xxx and 4xx/5xx AA scaling is much closer, their results are completely different to most user tests and professional reviews and completely overrated....
Oh? I have have yet to see a review where AMD's cards don't take a massive hit when AA is enabled. It's an architectural limitation which AMD will likely resolve with upcoming products.


As for the results, I am 100% confident in saying that on average with the latest WHQL drivers, HD 5870 is at least 30% slower at 1920 x 1200 4xAA than the GTX 480 in newer games. I'd even venture that this carries over into quite a few DX9 games as well but it won't show up on charts simply due to CPU bottlenecks artificially impacting the scores.

To me, DX11 and to a lesser extent DX10 really is all that matters in terms of performance when testing $150 and above GPUs. Even a lowly GTS 450 has no issue pushing out 60 FPS+ in the current crop of DX9 games at 1920 x 1200.