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When FSAA is implemented, the performance penalty payed by Immediate mode renderers is amplified, since the card is essentially rendering in a higher resolution, which means even more memory bandwidth is wasted texturing pixels that won't be visible. As a result, when switching to 2x or 4x anti-aliasing, both GeForce 2 cards suffer a noticeable hit, while the Kyro II sees a much smaller drop in performance.

In fact, in 4x AA, the Kyro II comes very close to edging out the GeForce 2 Pro in 32-bit color. Once again, small but efficient wins out over the brute force approach.