smaa,txaa,fxaa,msaa,csaa whats the difference?

[mistergeforce]

so i've heard alot about these different anti aliasing types and im wondering which is the best for my gtx 660 and i 2500k if i plan to play at max settings in games

 

[cookybiscuit]

TXAA is terrible always so ignore it. FXAA instead of working its magic on edges like normal AA, just does it on everything, so the whole screen looks blurry, its best avoided unless you are having issues with framerate. SMAA is the same. MSAA is often the best but comes with a massive framerate hit, no blurryness and deals with jaggies the best.

Use super sampling when you can, it performs about on par with MSAA in terms of visual fidelity but often doesn't have such a huge performance hit.

 

[mistergeforce]

so i've heard alot about these different anti aliasing types and im wondering which is the best for my gtx 660 and i 2500k if i plan to play at max settings in games

TXAA is terrible always so ignore it. FXAA instead of working its magic on edges like normal AA, just does it on everything, so the whole screen looks blurry, its best avoided unless you are having issues with framerate. SMAA is the same. MSAA is often the best but comes with a massive framerate hit, no blurryness and deals with jaggies the best.

Use super sampling when you can, it performs about on par with MSAA in terms of visual fidelity but often doesn't have such a huge performance hit.

what about csaa?

 

[cookybiscuit]

It's pretty much the same as MSAA. 8x CSAA is equivalent to 4x MSAA both in image quality and FPS hit, but QCSAA is the same in both aspects, so for example 4x QCSAA is the same as 4x MSAA.

 

[smeezekitty]

what about csaa?

Its a NVidia tweak of MSAA. It preforms pretty similar.