With so much rendering horsepower at its disposal, it's
more than welcome news to see NVIDIA focusing on 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing
with their new high-end parts, and in the chart above we can see the company's
claims that 8x MSAA suffers a far smaller performance hit with the GeForce GTX
400 series compared to the GeForce GTX 200 series illustrated for your
perusal. With support for up to 32x
Coverage Sample anti-aliasing to add to the mix, you certainly shouldn't be
left wanting in terms of image quality improvements from this generation of
hardware.
SLI scaling is also improved for this new
generation of hardware, with 90% scaling expected of many titles thanks to
improvements to both caching and compression within the GF100
architecture. Needless to say, 3-way SLI
is still supported at the high-end, and we should also be seeing Quad SLI
making an appearance further down the line according to NVIDIA. @ Elite Bastards
