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Do you remember when ATI tried to scam us when they introduced the Radeon? They used drivers that weren't properly reproducing the graphics thereby "gaining" speed on the Quake benchs. If the GPU doesn't have to calculate the entire screen then of course the performance will increase.
In a comparison of the 5900FX's AA to the Radeon 9800 Pro's AA as shown on HardOCP, you can clearly see that the 5900FX is not doing what it's supposed to do. There are clearly jaggies viewable. Therefore, it is easy to surmise and probably correctly that nVidia is attempting to pull the wool over our eyes. I suspect that either the BIOS or the actual chip is designed to limit the AA calculations thereby "gaining" performance.
A truer comparison would be to compare the 5900FX in 8x AA vs the Radeon 9800 Pro in 2x AA (similar visual output). Otherwise you might as well compare all graphics cards perfomance by running the tests in VGA mode.
In a comparison of the 5900FX's AA to the Radeon 9800 Pro's AA as shown on HardOCP, you can clearly see that the 5900FX is not doing what it's supposed to do. There are clearly jaggies viewable. Therefore, it is easy to surmise and probably correctly that nVidia is attempting to pull the wool over our eyes. I suspect that either the BIOS or the actual chip is designed to limit the AA calculations thereby "gaining" performance.
A truer comparison would be to compare the 5900FX in 8x AA vs the Radeon 9800 Pro in 2x AA (similar visual output). Otherwise you might as well compare all graphics cards perfomance by running the tests in VGA mode.
[Posted by: eliasnyc | Date: 05/13/03 09:57:07 AM]





