NVIDIA Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA) Performance on GTX 970

[jh30uk]

You found this out since post #15

 

[almighty15]

Yep

 

[jh30uk]

What if you disable SLI, set MFAA to on and enable SLI again (the same way peeps got DSR to work in SLI when it launched).

 

[LambChop]

simply superb from nvidia, they really do push the advancements

 

[Rusty0611]

Stunning

 

[elrasho]

So do you need to disable MSAA in games to see what affect MFAA has?

 

[Fanatic]

Nope, you need to enable it, at least 2xMSAA.

 

[elrasho]

so MFAA runs on top of MSAA? How can that increase performance though if MSAA is still running?

 

[Fanatic]

I guess the Nvidia driver turns off the MSAA and turns on the MFAA.

 

[almighty15]

so MFAA runs on top of MSAA? How can that increase performance though if MSAA is still running?

No it doesn't, setting MSAA to 2x/4x/8x/ simply triggers the game to apply AA, in that case if you have MFAA turned on then the driver takes care of the rest.

 

[elrasho]

No it doesn't, setting MSAA to 2x/4x/8x/ simply triggers the game to apply AA, in that case if you have MFAA turned on then the driver takes care of the rest.

Thanks for the explanation

 

[Ayahuasca]

So it doesn't matter if the setting is off or on, MFFA will override it?

 

[elrasho]

No you have to have it on in order for the driver to initiate MFFA

 

[Ayahuasca]

Well now I know, ty.

 

[humbug]

The MFAA enabled screen-shots look washed-out compared with MSAA.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Just tried it myself on BF4, looks about the same as 4xMSAA but more fps, colours didn't look any different.

 

[shankly1985]

In the link above I can see a difference in the BF4 shots.. MSAA grass looks more detailed and also look at the rocks to the players left.

Then the overall image looks like its brightness is higher thats the best way I can explain it.

MSAA 4x looks better here.. Maybe different in game or if you could post up much higher res screens.

Spoiler

 

[Gregster]

Did you get that proof as someone in driver thread said it isn't coming.

Pay no heed to me and I completely misread/skimmed it and got it wrong



Hopefully they will add it but not fussed if they don't.

 

[Final8y]

The MFAA enabled screen-shots look washed-out compared with MSAA.

In the link above I can see a difference in the BF4 shots.. MSAA grass looks more detailed and also look at the rocks to the players left.

Then the overall image looks like its brightness is higher thats the best way I can explain it.

MSAA 4x looks better here.. Maybe different in game or if you could post up much higher res screens.

Spoiler

Yep.

 

[humbug]

In the link above I can see a difference in the BF4 shots.. MSAA grass looks more detailed and also look at the rocks to the players left.

Then the overall image looks like its brightness is higher thats the best way I can explain it.

MSAA 4x looks better here.. Maybe different in game or if you could post up much higher res screens.

Spoiler

Well spotted, it just looked washed out to me, the MFAA screen-shot defiantly looks like a lower IQ setting than MSAA.