New Anti-Aliasing technologies
Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA) EQAA is a new anti-aliasing option available on the latest series of AMD FirePro™ professional graphics cards. This technique offers advanced smoothing of aliased edges without requiring additional video memory, and with a minimal performance cost. It offers enhanced quality over standard Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) modes by doubling the number of coverage samples per pixel, while keeping the same number of colour/depth/stencil samples.
The new EQAA modes can be enabled by selecting the 2xEQ, 4xEQ, or 8xEQ modes that have been added to the anti-aliasing slider in the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center. EQAA is fully compatible with all other supported anti-aliasing techniques, including Adaptive AA, Super-Sample AA, Custom Filter AA (Edge-Detect), and Morphological AA.
Selecting the Enhanced Application Settings option from the drop-down box will cause applications that natively support MSAA modes to use equivalent EQAA modes instead.