Re: multisample configurations ?

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Simon Bennett (simonb++at++wormald.com.au)
Fri, 22 Dec 1995 18:21:54 +1100 (EST)


On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Rainer Krampe wrote:

> What will be the general performance gain if changed to 4 ?

Your fill rate will rise, thou now where near as much as that going from
16 to 8 spp. Won't do anything for polygon throughput thou. If you're
currently fill-limited and have a high depth complexity then your
thoughput could rise.

I actually benchmarked pixel fill rates as it related to multi-sampling a
while back, if you turn it off completely you get (from memory) around
370 million pixels a second! I think the best I ever achieved while
multisampling was around 285 or so million pixels a second...

I can dig up the figures if you're *really* interested.

None of this of course matters much if your not fill limited.

Anyway.. Merry Xmas & Happy New Year everybody...

Ahhh what the hell I'll be silly...

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