Different Types of Anti-aliasing as Fast As Possible

There are many forms of anti-aliasing available... what are some of the differences between them?

[davidtarnawski]

Holy shit, that's a lot of acronyms.

[jeffmcgaming]

3:50 Holy Shit I'm color blind
*keeps reading*
oh ok.

[motsekra]

3 O' clock in holland. But a techquickie never hurts :D

[pascal]

FXAA is too much blur. The whole picture loses the sharpness.

[seanwilson]

True SMAA is by far, lightyears better than any other AA. Looks better than msaa 8X but has a performance hit closer to 5% vs 85% like msaa 8x And images stay completely sharp unlike other post AA solutions. However it's implementation in watch dogs is poor to say the least. I am not sure what happened there.

[ryanh.]

Uncharted 4 custom AA is some of the best anti aliasing I ever seen. Tekken 7 looks good too, but we'll have to wait and see for that.

[owenlee]

why is the video quality of your videos so much better than everyone else's?

[Brad-k]

Thanks Linus, this was a great explanation on these different settings.

[oscuro]

The new DSR software from Nvidia that can downsample higher resolutions, works like a charm for me. Been using it a lot since it came to gtx 700 series

[Whoisthis]

Good video but you should have put a short text panel at the end of the video, naming all the AA types again and simply telling what is each unique for in a few words.

[BikerDash]

Two videos... that is all it took for me to subscribe. I know I have a TON that I still need to learn, and I'm willing to bet that this channel will help me learn all of it.

[MorriganJade]

Today, since there are lot of games that have a Temporal Anti Aliasing option like TSMAA or TXAA that is NOT from Nvidia, I cannot live without it. The smoothness of the frames while in motion is just a blessing!

[slg]

I think there is some information missing in this video.

AA is something that is completely personal. It all depend of you eye sight and the distance you are from your monitor.

You can test this out by opening a game with all AA filters off and find some corner where you can see the "stairway effect". Now all you need is to get close to the monitor, fix that point and slowly move back. 

At some distance, you will not be able to see the stairway. If you play from that point, AA is completely useless.

This is why we all should be excited with 4k.

[GamerInVoid]

Different types of Ambient Occlusion up next would be great !!! :)

[raediantz]

Linus could you possibly do a quickie on cuda cores and stream processors?

[VGamingJunkieVT]

How about TSSAA? Doom uses it and it's considered one of the best anti-aliasing methods used.

[toastybatch]

FXAA is a waste of 2 fps. It's light, yes, but it just blurs everything.

[RaydeusMX]

I'm just glad AA is on the way out.

I've never particularly liked AA so didn't use it much, and once I moved up to 1080p I just forgot it existed.

Maybe if SMAA had appeared much sooner I'd be singing a different tune, but with 4K and up already here AA makes even less sense for my use.

[DarthEditous]

2:58 FXAA doesn't use depth at all. It only looks at the brightness of neighbouring pixels.

[ivanzhu]

All theses fast-as-possible videos all feel the same from 2014+. Loving how old vids are still great!