Texture Filtering Image Quality - 8X, 16X
8X anisotropic filtering
FilterTest - Quality - 8X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~1MB)
FilterTest - Performance - 8X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~1MB)
Serious Sam - Quality - 8X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~2.37MB)
Serious Sam - Performance - 8X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~2.37MB)
Serious Sam - Comparison - 8X Aniso
16X anisotropic filtering
FilterTest - Quality - 16X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~1MB)
FilterTest - Performance - 16X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~1MB)
Serious Sam - Quality - 16X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~2.37MB)
Serious Sam - Performance - 16X Aniso - Click for full size .png (~2.37MB)
Serious Sam - Comparison - 16X Aniso
The 16X filtering mode is new to NVIDIA hardware with NV40. FilterTest shows it quite nicely with a smoother blend pattern on the inner sections of the image, between the first and second texture stages.
