Radeon 9600XT by ASUS Review - Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering
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I've done all my testing for one purpose: I wanted to see how fast this card can run. I haven't commented on image quality yet, and that's where antialiasing and anisotropic filtering come in. These two features, common on recent video cards, can make a world of a difference in picture quality if applied correctly.
Since I'm interested to see how fast the Asus Radeon 9600XT can pump out the frames at high quality, I put the drivers at the Optimal Quality setting and re-ran 3DMark 2001SE:
Since some look at 3DMark 2001SE as a standard in video card performance, this can be a bit disconcerting - Optimal Quality takes away about half the score.
Is the Optimal Quality Worth it?
I took screen shots from Battle Engine Aquila, one of the DirectX 9 games shipped with the Radeon 9600XT to see:
Personally, I'll leave the video card drivers in Balanced mode, since if the app chooses, I can get 2x AA and 8x AF.
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