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As you can notice NVIDIA made some changes in the drivers recently. Look at the tabs and you'll notice that performance is now set at Quality by default. With the launch of GeForce FX 5900 and 44.xx series of the reference drivers, NVIDIA has modified the Performance and Quality control panel to more accurately represent the driver settings. NVIDIA now offers a Performance, Balanced and Quality mode for Image Settings.
Here you can select Anti Aliasing (AA) up-to 8xS skewed grid modes and Anisotropic Filtering modes (AF) to 8x. The Texture sharpening setting will crank up the AF level to the next higher one. At default Quality is set which is a quality setting better than ATI's default settings. Performance isthe same and thus matches ATI default performance settings mode.
- The Performance mode offers users the highest frame rate possible.
- Balanced mode offers users an optimal blend of image quality and performance.
- Quality mode offers users the highest image quality while still delivering very good performance.
We included benchmarks on Quality mode. The quality mode is better than previous results on all graphics card reviews.
So remember, balanced mode is the image quality and thus performance results comparable to all other graphics card results in the benchmarks. Quality mode has better visual quality. NVIDIA cracked up Image Quality a notch.
