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ZOTAC GTX 680 (Kepler) Video Card Review And Benchmarks

Tue, 2012-03-27 09:22 -- Elric Phares

NVIDIA is always striving to get the most realistic and visually impressive gaming experience and over  the years have developed new technologies to archive this goal. Aliasing is the edges of a said rendered object and how it looks either smooth and real or jagged and looking like a rough edge. NVIDIA FXAA technology harnesses the power of the GPU’s CUDA Cores to reduce visible aliasing. It is applied along with other post processing steps like motion blur and bloom. For game engines making use of deferred shading, FXAA provides a performance and memory advantage over deferred shading with multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA). NVIDIA FXAA was first implemented in games last year beginning with Age of Conan. Since then, FXAA has shipped in 15 additional titles. As NVIDIA advances their FXAA we get to see our games in finer detail than previously possible and the better and finer the lines around objects look the closer to real life gaming is visually becoming. Here are some other titles committed to using NVIDIA's FXAA technology.

In the ever-continuing GPU war we always see the same game of leapfrog played by one company or the other as they try and surpass the other guy. If you pay close attention though, you will notice it’s always just enough to claim a victory, never anything so dynamic you want to pick up the phone and begin telling everyone you know about it.

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