What is the difference between texture filtering and texture fetching?

Question

Are these concepts the same? I saw how they were used in several contexts.

Answer 1

Texture sampling is the result of extracting data from a texture. Texture filtering is an algorithm by which a pixel or group of pixels within a texture is extracted (and possibly combined) to obtain the result of texture sampling.

Answer 2

Some links for you:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1155163,00.asp
http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2009/09/08/texture-filtering.aspx