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GF100 benchmark, sneak peak, video

This is cool stuff really .. I like the ray tracing! I remember typing in a basic raytracing program from an Acorn magazine into my Archimedes to raytrace a scene containing only a sphere and a plane (simple geometric analysis really to work out the rays from the view point)! :) My god that took ages to draw :D

I have enough graphics performance to do me for a while now but I watch with interest how this develops!
 
Quite impressive demos but as always it takes some years to actually see games catching up to the demos that either Nvidia or ATI releases. Lets hope that developers actually start using some of new features and power available in new and upcoming cards.
 
blackninja said:
This is cool stuff really .. I like the ray tracing! I remember typing in a basic raytracing program from an Acorn magazine into my Archimedes to raytrace a scene containing only a sphere and a plane (simple geometric analysis really to work out the rays from the view point)! :) My god that took ages to draw :D

I have enough graphics performance to do me for a while now but I watch with interest how this develops!
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Ah the good old Acorns - RISC OS was light years ahead of its time :D

Ray Tracing is the future IMO - but we are a long way from useage outside of highly specific cases - I am suprised we haven't seen consumer grade addin cards tho to process it - as it doesn't need a particularly fast CPU just lots and lots of specialised cores...
 
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Lightnix said:
Those demos are impressive, I'm not sure I'd call 0.63FPS 'real time', though. :p
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I assume "real time" indicates some sort of interactive features, if so, it doesn't really matter what the FPS is as long as you can adjust things and move the camera around, even if it is horribly slow.

Still. 0.6FPS is very impressive to me, it's about time they moved 3D rendering (of that type, Raytracing, unbiased etc) on to GPUs.

About time! ATi need to get a move on and put some R&D In to it now too, especially with nVidia now owning Mental Ray.
 
The ray tracing stuff is very impressive - this is from wikipedia but I honestly wouldn't be able to tell if this was computer generated or real life:
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Rroff said:
Ah the good old Acorns - RISC OS was light years ahead of its time :D

Ray Tracing is the future IMO - but we are a long way from useage outside of highly specific cases - I am suprised we haven't seen consumer grade addin cards tho to process it - as it doesn't need a particularly fast CPU just lots and lots of specialised cores...
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Unbiased moreso, isn't unbiased basically a more accurate (in terms of physics) form of raytracing?
 
dangerstat said:
The ray tracing stuff is very impressive - this is from wikipedia but I honestly wouldn't be able to tell if this was computer generated or real life:
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I can tell that it's not real, it's got a very plastic look about it.

It would however be very nice if games starting looking that that.

These type of images however are the ones that'll get you questioning if they're computer renders.

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Bjorn3D said:
Design Article releases tomorrow 7PM CST with complete Whitepaper info.

New Features, new cache, new Memory setup, and yes it's about 100% performance increase over GTX-2xx so figure single GTX-285 vs 5870 then double the GTX-285 performance.

Then it handles triangles different, triangles on any given frame can number in the hundreds of thousands so that's very important.

It will fold a lot better.

Increased efficiency in several areas.

It's a revolutionary new design oriented toward tessellation (those pesky triangles) and geometric programming. Problem being every wire frame is made up of triangles, tessellation takes those triangle and breaks them down into many smaller triangles. This core is uniquely designed to handle that so geometric and shader heavy games you will see more than the 100% raw power increase.

520USD might handle it. At 2x GTX-285 performance that puts it above GTX-295 performance and it's DX11 ready and designed for that specifically. Current ATI offerings are really good but basically a double the hardware on the same core design to provide more raw power. GF100 is a core design to take advantage of what the industry needs today and for some time in the future.

Read the article tomorro cause that's about all I can say tonight.
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Rumor has it we will indeed be getting full technical specs by the end of the day, and it seems the new fermi will absolutely spank those 5XXX Radeons :D
 
full technical specs at 5am UK time. latest info indicates 100% performance increase over the gtx 285, about £450 price tag. nothing confirmed yet
 
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