What do you think? Any chance MLAA will work with 5XXX and 4XXX cards as well?
HD4000 may not get the goods here, if the LDS woes in RV770 from OCL are valid to some extent for DC4.x.Anand said:Finally, for those of you curious how this is being handled internally, this is actually being done by AMD’s drivers through a DirectCompute shader. Furthermore they’re taking heavy advantage of the Local Data Store of their SIMD design to keep adjacent pixels in memory to speed it up, with this being the biggest reason why it has such a low amount of overhead. Since it’s a Compute Shader, this also means that it should be capable of being back-ported to the 5000 series, although AMD has not committed to this yet. There doesn’t appear to be a technical reason why this isn’t possible, so ultimately it’s up to AMD and if they want to use it to drive 6800 series sales over 5000 series sales.
It absolutely kills performance though, will be interesting to see how this compares.
So its essentially "free" for all practical purposes, then? Fantastic.
It also means, that MLAA won't be available for XP users.HD 5000 probably yes => Compute Shader 5.0.
HD 4000 probably not => Compute Shader 4.1.
It also means, that MLAA won't be available for XP users.
Would XP users even own a 5000 or 6000 series card? It kind of seems silly to think they'd own a recent GPU but not a recent OS.
I think you can't run CS5.0 in XP, co if MLAA is CS5.0 dependant, it will be available only in Vista/W7.Why would it? If ATI chooses to expose it, it's just fine.
I think you can't run CS5.0 in XP, co if MLAA is CS5.0 dependant, it will be available only in Vista/W7.
Would XP users even own a 5000 or 6000 series card? It kind of seems silly to think they'd own a recent GPU but not a recent OS.
Game wise xp is more compatible than win7
Well if you call your self a "real"PC gamer. you have a XP box and a Win7 box.( also a old game box). If you call your self a real gamer who loves IQ, then you will have a 4.gz CPU and more System Ram than you can use.Game wise xp is more compatible than win7
MLAA should be supported by all DX11 AMD cards.It also means, that MLAA won't be available for XP users.