NVIDIA Asteroids Demo

tommybhoy · 20 Dec 2018 at 00:20

The #NVIDIA Asteroids demo showcases how the mesh shading technology built into NVIDIA’s #Turing GPU architecture can dramatically improve performance and image quality.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/using-turing-mesh-shaders-nvidia-asteroids-demo/?linkId=100000004404881

Demo link(guessing it's Turing only):

https://developer.nvidia.com/gameworks/downloads/asteroids-demo-exe

It's playable too, you can zoom through the asteroid field, impressive demo, but would be even more impressed if they can get it into titles!

Howling · 20 Dec 2018 at 00:33

Man, I was really hoping for the old atari classic Asteroids - guess the RTX cards can't manage that behemoth

Quartz · 20 Dec 2018 at 00:36

That'll be another year's delay on Star Citizen, then.

Simon Belmont · 20 Dec 2018 at 05:22

Quartz said:
That'll be another year's delay on Star Citizen, then.

Star Citizen died years ago.

SupraWez · 20 Dec 2018 at 05:42

Worth a look.

uroboros · 20 Dec 2018 at 06:41

Better than space invaders I guess

HEADRAT · 20 Dec 2018 at 06:57

Sorry Nvidia that's pathetic, the above is "Asteroids"

JediFragger · 20 Dec 2018 at 07:32

/awaits Asteroids is better than Space Invaders joke....

uroboros · 20 Dec 2018 at 14:12

JediFragger said:
/awaits Asteroids is better than Space Invaders joke....

See above

nashathedog · 20 Dec 2018 at 15:28

Quartz said:
That'll be another year's delay on Star Citizen, then.

Let's hope not I've hardly used my Mustang

I even forgot I had it for a while. :rolleyes:

ttaskmaster · 20 Dec 2018 at 15:49

kaiserc · 20 Dec 2018 at 18:55

Quartz said:
That'll be another year's delay on Star Citizen, then.

Clearly, that's not the case,
With $210 million of backers funding (that's 10mill in the last month)
There is also 2 roadmaps
Star Citizen https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citizen
Squadron 42 https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42

SC now has overcome almost every technical hurdle (Apart from advance AI)

Gerard · 20 Dec 2018 at 20:37

Turing only, bleh.

nashathedog · 20 Dec 2018 at 20:47

kaiserc said:
Clearly, that's not the case,
With $210 million of backers funding (that's 10mill in the last month)
There is also 2 roadmaps
Star Citizen https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/1-Star-Citizen
Squadron 42 https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42

SC now has overcome almost every technical hurdle (Apart from advance AI)

Sounds like good news, except AI is often what makes or breaks a game so fingers crossed. If it's as good as I'm hoping on release I may buy myself some flight sim bits & a VR headset once the next gen models release, only if I'm going to be sinking a lot of time into it though.

Gerard said:
Turing only, bleh.

^^ The real reason it won't effect when Star Citizen releases.

Dicehunter · 20 Dec 2018 at 22:10

Looks great, AMD seriously need to get their butts into gear because at this point they will be multiple years behind when they release their next GPU series.

SupraWez · 20 Dec 2018 at 22:18

Needs a dev login

Vidar · 20 Dec 2018 at 22:22

Nevermind amd being behind nvidia, it will be beyond embarrassing if Intel brings something real to the gpu table.

Dicehunter · 20 Dec 2018 at 22:47

Vidar said:
Nevermind amd being behind nvidia, it will be beyond embarrassing if Intel brings something real to the gpu table.

Well Nvidia is worth around 150 Billion, Intel is worth 200 Billion so Intel can, IF they wanted to, Come out with a truly monsterous GPU that wipes the floor with whatever Nvidia have and if they release it at a really decent price completely under cutting Nvidia then they're on a winner especially as apparently they will already be compatible with Freesync monitors so they'll have another leg up on Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync tech.

Howling · 20 Dec 2018 at 22:56

Dicehunter said:
Well Nvidia is worth around 150 Billion, Intel is worth 200 Billion so Intel can, IF they wanted to, Come out with a truly monsterous GPU that wipes the floor with whatever Nvidia have and if they release it at a really decent price completely under cutting Nvidia then they're on a winner especially as apparently they will already be compatible with Freesync monitors so they'll have another leg up on Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync tech.

and AMD is worth about 20bil currently - not too long ago it was less than 2bil. I find it absurd that AMD can even compete with either company, let alone be currently mopping the floor with Intel

Vidar · 21 Dec 2018 at 00:32

I'm no fan boy either way, but I can see AMD are plucky and being innovative both intel and nvidia have been unchallenged and what we've ended up with is seriously inflated prices! Yeah I went out and bought a 9900k Gigabyte bundle recently but a few years ago I'd have never been able to afford such silly prices for a cpu etc! I also got a 1080ti at £500 which was pushing it, I'm not even going to entertain the notion of a 2080 ti at these ridiculous prices.

What I'd love to see is Nvidia enter the CPU market, or ARM etc, to hopefully see even more competitively priced cpus with good performance gains.