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What I'm surprised about is that people are just realizing that retina uses a lot more processing power. I bet most people still don't realize that a "retina-optimized" game should should have half the performance on iPad 3 compared to the "low-res" version on iPad 2, if everything else is equal, even though the GPU in iPad 3 is twice as strong.


Yeah, twice as strong but pushing four times the pixels, I think a lot of people get easily confused. What can you do but hope the hardware improves more I guess.


Yes however retina games don't require 4x AA to look great. So you're trading one performance hit for another.


4x AA is only a 15-20% hit when you're talking about MSAA: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/535?i=455.488.456.492


Not all games support MSAA, however yes it's much more GPU friendly.




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