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Anti Aliasing, what's better? 8x MSAA or 16x CSAA?

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In theory, which mode would provide the best anti aliased image?

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They are actually very similar.

Have a look.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...gf8800_14.html


I'm not entirely sure how color samples affect overall quality, but CSAA has less color samples than regular AA.

Edited by sLowEnd - 1/19/11 at 6:15pm
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I don't think in game you would really see the difference, if you took a screen of both and compared them there might but otherwise they are essentially the same.

I think a better question would be 'what gives more of a performance hit for the same quality?' and the answer to that, I do not know.
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http://developer.nvidia.com/csaa-coverage-sampling-antialiasing


From what i read CSAA is superior in performance and quality.
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i find the image to be smoother in above comparison with 16x CSAA compared to 8x MSAA.
can't distinguish 16xQ and 16x though
    
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