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rush Why are your trilinear optimizations different to what Nvidia is doing ?
Andy/Raja Raja: We won't comment on competitor's algorithms. Our focus is to retain full image quality while offering the best performance possible.
No-one is suggesting that our texture filtering algorithms produce a worse output than previous generations . In fact, if we took them out now the speed would be marginally less and we will receive complaints from users that our quality is lower . We did receive feedback from several folks who think that the X800 IQ is better than our 9800 series - it is always our goal to improve quality in newer hardware generations . To assist in this we have many additional quality controls in hardware in X800 series than on 9800
Our target is also to avoid any need to detect applications, and as such we have to try to be sure that our image quality remains high in all cases. To achieve this we spent a lot of effort developing algorithms to make the best use of our quality tuning options. This isn’t a performance enhancement applied to popular gaming benchmarks , it’s a performance boost – without image degradation – applied generically to every game that uses box-filtered mipmaps, which is most of them. This means, incidentally, that it’s working during the WHQL tests (unlike optimizations activated by application detection), which means that it has to meet the very stringent image quality requirements of those tests.
