By Clay Angelly - October 23, 2003

TEXTURE FILTERING

The following images are from a program that was specifically developed to measure anisotropic filtering quality, and can be downloaded from Beyond3D. The program renders a three-dimensional cylinder and contains a black and white texture that's applied to the interior. The black and white area illustrates the amount of texture detail that anisotropic filtering is delivering. More color represents lower image quality.

Texture Filtering Comparisons

ATI Radeon 9800Pro BFG 5700 Ultra 1xAF 1xAF 2xAF 2xAF 4xAF 4xAF 8xAF 8xAF

DIRECT3D AF

At first glance the images below appear to be identical to the images above. However, there are subtle differences and are more noticeable at the 8xAF setting.

Direct3D Texture Filtering Comparisons

ATI Radeon 9800Pro BFG 5700 Ultra 1xAF 1xAF 2xAF 2xAF 4xAF 4xAF 8xAF 8xAF