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ATI Radeon HD 2000 Family Demo and Movies

ATI has released a demo and two movies, showcasing the capabilities of their Radeon HD 2000 series products. The Whiteout demo requires Windows Vista, an ATI Radeon HD series product with 512MB of video memory and a high end CPU with 1GB of RAM. Thanks: Doc.

Thanks MarkyB!!! :D
 
Cyber-Mav said:
no screenshots so far which probably means 2900 users hare having problems running it :p
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Why would a 2900 user have problems running one of it's own demos, you just made yourself look like even more of a fool right there :rolleyes: typical.

Anyway the demo runs smooth as butter (as you would expect) much more enjoyable seeing it being rendered real time than on a movie. Amazing how much stuff is going on with no slowdown :D , there are interactive parts of the demo, two of which i will show here. One shows off the tessalator unit on the card being used and the other showing off the HDR in the demo.

Here is the Tessalator demo it shows how you can add snow onto the mountain top and add different levels of snow coverage VERY impressive.



And here is the HDR showing off the lighting you can move the mouse about and see how it affects the environment and what have you



It's a shame i couldnt get Fraps to work even when running as an Administrator otherwise I could have shown some more.
 
lay-z-boy said:
That mountain looks like its made out of treacle & syrup :/

What does a tessalator unit do? Make it slower than an 8800gtx? :p
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"Among some of the new features of the 2000 series include a programmable Tessellation Unit. This feature enables the GPUs to apply image enhancements when support is written in games such that game developers have a much easier time doing up simpler graphics, and letting the GPU do the image enhancements. This also supposedly saves on GPU Horsepower as you can see below. You get 2.3x performance compared to a conventionally rendered scene."

Should help it run faster than the GTX once the developers start using it ;)
 
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