Farcry Quality

We have seen enough regarding the performance of the CoolFX 6800 Ultra. Now let's exmine it's performance quality. Firstly, you will see some screenshots captured that indicate the anisotropic filtering quality the 6800 Ultra has.

These are the 6800 Ultra Anisotropic filtering levels. The NV40 GPU gives the ability to render textures up to 16x anisotropy.

- Farcry AF Quality Test

To test the anisotropic filtering quality of the 6800U, I picked 2 particular scenes in Farcry and I grabbed screenshots from specific scenes with different values of AF.

The scene you see below can be found at the Volcano campaign level. You can enlarge the image by clicking on it.

CoolFX 6800 Ultra supports the following AF settings: 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x. Now let's see the quality difference on this scene at the 1024 x768 resolution.

AA OFF

AA 2x

AA 4x

AA 8x

AA 16x

With AF disabled the poorer quality is very visible in Farcry with the 6800 Ultra. Only after the 8x anisotropy level can you experience some quality graphics. It is worth noting that a slight quality difference is visible between 8x and 16x (observe the middle line of the floor when it meets the circle at the end of the hallway).

I also picked a scene from a rusty bridge. The scene can be found at the Bunker campaign level. I picked this one because the anisotropy level is very visible on the floor of the bridge.

Again I grabbed screenshots using all AF settings CooLFX 6800U supports at the 1024x768 resolution.

AA OFF

AA 2x

AA 4x

AA 8x

AA 16x

The bridge looks pretty ugly even with the 2x anisotropy level. Things start to to look better mainly at 4x and more. But if you see carefully the 4x and 8x pictures at the end of the bridge floor, you may notice that the 8x has cleared out the slight blur found at 4x.

Comparing these images with the performance of the 6800 Ultra, I recommend enabling AF at 8x. The good point of this card is that you will not face any major drops of fps when enabling it's quality settings.