NVIDIA Anti-Aliasing Performance Under Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 24 June 2012 at 03:43 PM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 11 Comments.
NVIDIA AA Kepler Anti-Aliasing Linux
NVIDIA AA Kepler Anti-Aliasing Linux

Well, there you have it for those wondering about the impact of the different anti-aliasing options with the binary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. From the quick round of OpenGL Linux benchmarks, the 32x AA mode in the form of 8x MSAA with 24x CSAA wasn't most demanding but when super-sampling was used resulted in the biggest performance loss.

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