1. An apparatus comprising: min-axis based mip map level determination logic operative to select, for a texture fetch, a mip map level from a plurality of mip map levels where the selected mip map level is based on a min-axis value without using a max-axis value and without using an amount of anisotropy wherein the min-axis value is based on a plurality of texture space derivatives with respect to screen space; and texture addressing logic operative to fetch texture data from memory in response to the selected mip map level based on the min-axis value.