Beta Test: MSI StarForce 822 GeForce 3 (6/7)

FSAA Benchmarks (OpenGL)

Quake3 Demo001 16 Bit color depth

The new Multi Sampling FSAA is one of the strength of GeForce 3. There is no framerate drop in 800x600 16, even with 4xFSAA. But at higher resolutions you can still see a major performance drop - higher than the "max. 40%" NVIDIA spoke of in the published White Papers. Quincunx is also not running with 2x performance. Itīs in the middle between 2x and 4x.

Quake3 Demo001 32 Bit color depth

Even in 32Bit, the GeForce 3 shows a remarkable performance in 800x600. 1024x768-32 above 60FPS with 2x and Quincunx... thatīs really nice!

^ Normal	^ 2x FSAA
^ Quincunx	^ 4x FSAA

The images above show a 200% scaled cut from 1024x768-32 Quake3 screenshots using the different GeForce 3 FSAA modes. Itīs hard to see the differences in those still images...

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