Image Quality – Battlefield: Vietnam

For our image quality testing, we used the same drivers and driver settings that we used during the actual demos and gameplay to get these screenshots.  Both the eVGA e-GeForce 6800 GT and the ATI X800 Pro are shown at the same location with both 0x AA and 0x AF as well as with 4x AA and 8x AF turned on.  The IQ testing was done at the 1600×1200 resolution on each game. 

For Battlefield: Vietnam, we used the very beginning of the Reclaiming Rue map to get our screenshots.  The thumbnails are sized down a bit, but the full size image is a cropped shot that is still full resolution for  a direct comparison.

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eVGA 6800 GT – 61.45 – 0x AA / 0x AF
X800 Pro – 4.7 – 0x AA / 0x AF

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eVGA 6800 GT – 61.45 – 4x AA / 8x AF
X800 Pro – 4.7 – 4x AA / 8x AF

Both cards look the same at 0x0x, as we’d expect, and both look very similar to each other with 4xAA enabled on the second screenshots.  However, close examination  on the left most horizontal bar of this shot of the bridge gives the NVIDIA a slight advantage as the “jaggies” seem to be slightly less apparent than on the X800 Pro screenshot.  This difference is really minute and I think that ANYONE would be hard pressed to find this while playing a game. 

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eVGA 6800 GT – 61.45 – 0x AA / 0x AF
X800 Pro – 4.7 – 0x AA / 0x AF

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eVGA 6800 GT – 61.45 – 4x AA / 8x AF
X800 Pro – 4.7 – 4x AA / 8x AF

Both of the 0x0x shots are perfect examples of why AA and AF are such a great addition to games and gaming hardware!  🙂  Very ugly shots there…  Looking just at the ground from the front of the image to the back, towards the sandbags, there are some slight variances in the coloring and shadow from the eVGA to the ATI cards.  If you look right below the bunker at the ground you will notice where some “bumpiness” appears on the NVIDIA card that doesn’t show up on the ATI card, though that could be lighting related as well.  I think both the eVGA 6800 GT and the ATI X800 Pro are doing good jobs on their AF here.

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