My 6800 Ultra - Page 2

Evildeus · 06-03-04, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jAkUp

whats the difference between high quality, and quality? The card defaults to quality.

RTFM? Ok don't hurt me

Perhaps the trilinear/brilinear optimizations?

Waffles · 06-03-04, 02:30 PM

Just leave it on quality. There is no visual difference between HQ and Q, but there is a big performance hit.

I'd have to do some hunting but a few sites detailed the differences for the april 4th reviews of the cards.

Skinner · 06-03-04, 02:31 PM

Nice to hear JakUp, that means they are on their way. Wait for the new drivers today. They should give somes goods with FarcCry.

Btw, I thought, angle depent AF couldn't be disabled?

jAkUp · 06-03-04, 02:35 PM

1600x1200 2xaa 8xaf

ragejg · 06-03-04, 02:39 PM

Change that sig!!!

Waffles · 06-03-04, 02:40 PM

"High Quality apparently turns off angle-adaptive anistropic filtering"

-- hexus nv40 preview

"NVIDIA was also kind enough to expose a setting in its driver that allows the user to disable its adaptive anisotropic filtering optimizations by choosing "High quality" image settings. In this case, both ATI and NVIDIA use adaptive aniso, so disabling this optimization wouldn't really be fair. Also, I spent some time trying to find visual difference between NVIDIA's adaptive aniso and non-adaptive aniso (using different angles of inclination, looking for mip-map level of detail changes, doing mathematical "diff" operations between screenshots) and frankly, I didn't find much of anything. I did benchmark the two modes, as you'll see in our texture filtering section, but I could find no reason not to leave NVIDIA's adaptive aniso turned on during our tests."

-- techreport.com preview

OWA · 06-03-04, 02:43 PM

Congrats, daggumit. Okay, I'm a little jealous.

Sigh...maybe I'll win the chance to purchase one with eVGA's drawing on the 5th.

Anyway, thanks for sharing how it is all going.

Evildeus · 06-03-04, 02:45 PM

Is there a big hit if you go for 4*AA+16*AF or 4*AA+8*AF JakUp?

jimmyjames123 · 06-03-04, 02:45 PM

Quote:

"High Quality apparently turns off angle-adaptive anistropic filtering"

-- hexus nv40 preview

"NVIDIA was also kind enough to expose a setting in its driver that allows the user to disable its adaptive anisotropic filtering optimizations by choosing "High quality" image settings. In this case, both ATI and NVIDIA use adaptive aniso, so disabling this optimization wouldn't really be fair. Also, I spent some time trying to find visual difference between NVIDIA's adaptive aniso and non-adaptive aniso (using different angles of inclination, looking for mip-map level of detail changes, doing mathematical "diff" operations between screenshots) and frankly, I didn't find much of anything. I did benchmark the two modes, as you'll see in our texture filtering section, but I could find no reason not to leave NVIDIA's adaptive aniso turned on during our tests."

-- techreport.com preview

I'm not so sure that non-angle dependent AF was actually enabled in the Forceware drivers that were sent out to reviewers. This could be why the reviewer found it very difficult to find any pic where there is a difference in IQ.

SLippe · 06-03-04, 02:55 PM

Congrats, Jak! Someday...someday...

jAkUp · 06-03-04, 02:55 PM

4x/8x compared to 2x/4x the hit is pretty large.. sometimes as much as 30fps, and I really can't see much of an iq difference between the 2. They are both playable, but I prefer the ultra smoothness

So for now 1600x1200 2xaa/4xaf suits me fine. Also, quality compared to high quality and the hit is very large.

Evildeus · 06-03-04, 03:00 PM

How do you compare that to your Radeon? In term of performance (what were your settings) and quality?

Thanks for the feedback!

06-03-04, 02:30 PM	#14
Waffles Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 140	Re: My 6800 Ultra Just leave it on quality. There is no visual difference between HQ and Q, but there is a big performance hit. I'd have to do some hunting but a few sites detailed the differences for the april 4th reviews of the cards.

06-03-04, 02:31 PM	#15
Skinner Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,128	Re: My 6800 Ultra Nice to hear JakUp, that means they are on their way. Wait for the new drivers today. They should give somes goods with FarcCry. Btw, I thought, angle depent AF couldn't be disabled? __________________ Intel i7@3,8gHzAsus P6T Deluxe* 2x Sapphire HD7970 3GB Crossfire 6 GB Corsair Dominator 1600C8OCZ Vertex 120 GB SSDadaptec 19160U160Intel X25 80 GB Quantum Atlas 15KII SCSI U160 147Gig* WD Raptor 300 GBApple 24" LED Cinema X-Fi TitaniumLogitech Z5500Coolmaster RP 1000WW7 64 Home

06-03-04, 02:35 PM	#16
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06-03-04, 02:39 PM	#17
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06-03-04, 02:40 PM	#18
Waffles Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 140	Re: My 6800 Ultra "High Quality apparently turns off angle-adaptive anistropic filtering" -- hexus nv40 preview "NVIDIA was also kind enough to expose a setting in its driver that allows the user to disable its adaptive anisotropic filtering optimizations by choosing "High quality" image settings. In this case, both ATI and NVIDIA use adaptive aniso, so disabling this optimization wouldn't really be fair. Also, I spent some time trying to find visual difference between NVIDIA's adaptive aniso and non-adaptive aniso (using different angles of inclination, looking for mip-map level of detail changes, doing mathematical "diff" operations between screenshots) and frankly, I didn't find much of anything. I did benchmark the two modes, as you'll see in our texture filtering section, but I could find no reason not to leave NVIDIA's adaptive aniso turned on during our tests." -- techreport.com preview

06-03-04, 02:43 PM	#19
OWA ... Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Virginia Posts: 9,481	Re: My 6800 Ultra Congrats, daggumit. Okay, I'm a little jealous. Sigh...maybe I'll win the chance to purchase one with eVGA's drawing on the 5th. Anyway, thanks for sharing how it is all going.

06-03-04, 02:45 PM	#20
Evildeus Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 309	Re: My 6800 Ultra Is there a big hit if you go for 4AA+16AF or 4AA+8AF JakUp? __________________ But if they think they're going to hold onto it, they're smoking something hallucinogenic - Jen-Hsun Huang

06-03-04, 02:55 PM	#22
SLippe R.I.P. Babe Thread Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 12,387	Re: My 6800 Ultra Congrats, Jak! Someday...someday...

06-03-04, 02:55 PM	#23
jAkUp eat. sleep. overclock. Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Chino, California Posts: 17,744	Re: My 6800 Ultra 4x/8x compared to 2x/4x the hit is pretty large.. sometimes as much as 30fps, and I really can't see much of an iq difference between the 2. They are both playable, but I prefer the ultra smoothness So for now 1600x1200 2xaa/4xaf suits me fine. Also, quality compared to high quality and the hit is very large. __________________ 965xe \|\| evga x58 classified \|\| 3x evga gtx 480 \|\| 6gb g.skill \|\| win7 x64

06-03-04, 03:00 PM	#24
Evildeus Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 309	Re: My 6800 Ultra How do you compare that to your Radeon? In term of performance (what were your settings) and quality? Thanks for the feedback! __________________ But if they think they're going to hold onto it, they're smoking something hallucinogenic - Jen-Hsun Huang