What is Filmic SMAA

[zoltar151]

In the new Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare there is an anti aliasing setting called Filmic SMAA. can any one elaborate on he difference between regular SMAA and Filmic SMAA. i notice the image is slightly blurier than SMAA regular. Am i to asume this Filmic is simply a remaning of TXAA. There are 2 Filmic SMAA settings: Filmic SMAA 1x and Filmic SMAA T2x.

 

[AGx-07_162]

I haven't seen or read any technical explanations for what it is or rather the benefits or differences from Filmic SMAA verses other Anti-aliasing techniques. If I were to take a guess I would imagine that it would be a type of anti-aliasing that attempts to give the game a cinematic look and as such would probably give your performance a bigger hit than other options.

If you have a high-end machine I'd recommend trying the the highest options for each and grabbing a screenshot and then just comparing how they look. Until we can find a good explanation for the tech, all we can do is compare performance verses graphics and just decide which works best for our tastes and setup.

 

[zoltar151]

im still not too sure my self. i've tried both and there isn't much difference aside from the blending. im using a GTX 760 2GB and a dedicated PHYSX GTX 650. ill have to play with it some more. i get good FPS for the most part i've been around 80-90 mostly but as usual i can drop to 55-65 depending on the scenes i think that just comes down to VRAM. i wanna get the new GTX 970 to solve that.

 

[zoltar151]

i've found that filmic smaa is the same as temporal smaa. so basically it's like a txaa variant. any one else confirm this.