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by ConstantineXVI 5305 days ago
High-res screen: expensive[money]

Super-sampling: expensive[cpu]

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A high-res screen isn't just expensive money-wise -- at the resolutions you need to avoid AA techniques, you're rendering at the same resolution you'd be rendering at for AA techniques. So it's more expensive in terms of money and in CPU/GPU time.
But wouldn't normal sampling on a high-res screen be just as expensive[cpu] as super-sampling on a normal-res screen?