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pascal · 18-Jul-2002, 19:06

People talked a lot about numbers and benchmarks, but what I would like to know is how much better is the R300 image quality with games?

Anyone have seen any comparison?

Cyborg · 18-Jul-2002, 19:10

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...on9700-06.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...on9700-09.html

Dave Baumann · 18-Jul-2002, 19:12

Hardocp has a gaming review and this comment stuck out out me:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzMw

Quote:

Quake 3 on the Radeon 9700 was simply heaven and stopping play long enough to look around showed off the Quake 3 maps’ textures and other visuals like I think the guys at id wanted them to be seen three years ago.

Althought thats only really talking about texturing performance I think it shows that the advancments in the pipelines can make a difference just in texturing. To see some of the other advances we'll have to be looking at pretty complex games and indepth reviews!

ATI had some screen shots of the car showing what the pipeline can do with high precision FP as opposeed to 32bit integer. That HardOCP piece is worth a read though.

mboeller · 18-Jul-2002, 19:43

When You look at page 9 from tomshardware preview, then it seems
the R300 uses (up to) 6x RGMS. Could this be true? This would explain
some of the outstanding image quality the sites report.

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...on9700-09.html

Bambers · 18-Jul-2002, 20:54

According to all the ati demos its some sort of non ordered AA. Its programable though so could be RGAA or any other pattern. It also says multissampling can be combined with different amounts of supersampling. It will be interesting to see if this is in the final drivers.

pascal · 19-Jul-2002, 03:49

Some UT2003 image quality tests in a few weeks could be nice.

Anyway, I think ATI really want my money 8)

OpenGL guy · 19-Jul-2002, 04:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by mboeller

When You look at page 9 from tomshardware preview, then it seems
the R300 uses (up to) 6x RGMS. Could this be true? This would explain
some of the outstanding image quality the sites report.

Up to 6 sample is correct. It looks quite nice

ben6 · 19-Jul-2002, 05:12

It was a cool show, OpenGL guy were you there?

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pascal Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brasil Posts: 1,790	How much better is the R300 image quality? People talked a lot about numbers and benchmarks, but what I would like to know is how much better is the R300 image quality with games? Anyone have seen any comparison?

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Cyborg Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 198	http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...on9700-06.html http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...on9700-09.html

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mboeller Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 845	When You look at page 9 from tomshardware preview, then it seems the R300 uses (up to) 6x RGMS. Could this be true? This would explain some of the outstanding image quality the sites report. http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...on9700-09.html

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Bambers Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 781	According to all the ati demos its some sort of non ordered AA. Its programable though so could be RGAA or any other pattern. It also says multissampling can be combined with different amounts of supersampling. It will be interesting to see if this is in the final drivers.

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