Date:
Sunday , July 20, 2008
Category:
GPU / Video Cards
Manufacturers:
AMD
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Kyle Bennett

AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Custom Filtering AA

AMD’s new ATI Radeon HD 4800 series provides shader powered antialiasing features! We examine in-game IQ and AA scaling. We’ve got all the information on using the Edge-detect Custom Filtering AA and what it will do for you in-game. If you are not sure how to best leverage your new 4870 or 4850 video cards, we show you how.

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System Test Setup

We will be using a quad-core CPU based platform with the ASUS P5E3-Premium CrossFire Motherboard and an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (Overclocked to 3.66GHz), and 4GB of Corsair CM3X1024-1800CD Dominator DDR3 to make sure the system will not be bottlenecking the GPUs.

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Comparison Setup

We are overclocking our CPU from 3GHz to 3.66GHz (11x333) so that we can reduce CPU limitations.

We are using Catalyst 8.7 beta, which fully represents final Catalyst 8.7 performance.

We also have Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit installed.