Tech Focus: TAA - Blessing Or Curse? Temporal Anti-Aliasing Deep Dive

TAA - or Temporal Anti-Aliasing - has become the de facto standard form of anti-aliasing in video games today. It’s a potent form of improving image quality and delivering effects similar to super-sampling while using a tiny fraction of your GPU’s power. However, it’s not without its issues and challenges and many users actively despise it. How have we got to where we are, why aren’t other forms of AA used and where does it fare best? Alex Battaglia has this video for you. Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: Join the DF Patreon to support the team more directly and to get access to everything we do via pristine quality downloads: Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more? Check out our store: For commercial enquiries, please contact business@ 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:00 What Came Before TAA? 00:10:34 TAA Advantages 00:15:50 TAA Disadvantages 00:23:54 Conclusion - Is TAA Good?