Parhelia	MSI GF4/GF4 MX	ATi Radeon 8500/9000
No AA or Ansiotropic filtering	No AA or Ansiotropic filtering	No AA or Ansiotropic Filtering
	2X AA	2X AA - Performance
	Quincunx AA - Ansiotropic filtering	2X AA - Quality
4X AA + 2X Ansiotropic filtering	4X AA + 2X Ansiotropic filtering	4X AA + 2X Ansiotropic Filtering
16X FAA + 2X Ansiotropic Filtering	4XS AA + 2X Ansiotropic filtering	4X AA + 4X Ansiotropic Filtering
	4XS AA + 4X Ansiotropic filtering	4X AA + 8X Ansiotropic Filtering
	4XS AA + 8X Ansiotropic filtering	4X AA + 16X Ansiotropic Filtering

    We can see the 4XS mode of antialiasing is a very large improvement over the previous maximum AA setting of Nvidia based video cards.  If we look at the pictures of 4X AA and 4XS AA of the MSI card we see that this setting brings the image fairly close to the quality of the 16X FAA of the Parhelia, though it is still not quite as good as the Parhelia.  The 4X AA of the Radeon cards is similar to the 4XS AA of the GeForce 4 cards and smooth's out most of the jagged edges of the pixels.  The ansiotropic filtering of the Nvidia card is better than the Parhelia is in my opinion at the same settings.  With the improvement in ansiotropic filtering the quality of the MSI card increases more.  This can be seen by looking at the ground in the pictures, there is a noticeable difference between the 2X, 4X and 8X ansiotropic settings, as the ground looks much sharper and more detailed with the increase in the number of samples used to create this image.  With the ATi cards the increase of ansiotropic filtering does almost nothing to the image, but this could be because of the ATi's technique for ansiotropic filtering that doesn't quite work in this picture.  Though the original image looks better than either the GeForce 4 or the Parhelia, which helps ATi have a slightly better chance at having good quality.