Nvidia Shows GeForce GTX 480 ''Hair'' Rendering

[xizel]

yawn!!!

 

[alterecho]

get out of here! you're ruining the entire gdc

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Did she say "500 feps"? The hair doesn't animate very realistically IMO. It moves like it's under water or in low gravity. It's not so bad with wind, it's when she's just moving the model that it looks wrong. Still better than static hair though, of course.[/citation]

Yeah, that's when it's tiny on the screen. When she zooms in, you can see the frames dropping to the 50s, and I could have sworn it hit 16 at one point. If only there were an ATI demo like this to compare it to...

 

[dgingeri]

She's pretty cute (the girl giving the demo, not the demo 'girl') and she must be pretty smart to effectively give a demo like this. I like...

 

[megamanx00]

Old

 

[Trueno07]

I was kinda hoping to see some more box art.

 

[Ciuy]

thats almost sexy

 

[IncinX]

Quoting from the video: "More than 18000 strands being rendered. We're simulating a lot less strands!"

I lol'd so hard at this. Her PR supervisor probably facepalmed when she said that.

You know, because a hair simulation demo should actually show off how well Fermi SIMULATES HAIR!

 

[konjiki7]

These demonstrations seem to make the situation worse... Maybe even a little desperate... Someone needs to give nvidia a hug.

 

[IncinX]

Haha, she also called FPS "fips".

 

[curnel_D]

Am I the only one that's never heard anyone refer to fps as 'phips'?

 

[curnel_D]

[citation][nom]IncinX[/nom]Haha, she also called FPS "fips".[/citation]
Lol, took me a min to realize what the hell she was talking about. If I was standing at her demonstration, It would have taken more self control than I possess not to laugh my ass off.

 

[jerther]

They still simulate hair movement like it's in water, like, in slow motion and of course, always beautiful brushed hair with no nods 😛

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]Yeah, that's when it's tiny on the screen. When she zooms in, you can see the frames dropping to the 50s, and I could have sworn it hit 16 at one point. If only there were an ATI demo like this to compare it to...[/citation]
Yeah I was just going to drop a comment on the fact that it was 50-60 fps which is good showing off the realism hair effects but I don't see this happening in games if frames drop that much to just render hair...

 

[razor512]

graphics in games still didn't even reach what you would see in those old geforce 6 and geforce 7 demos. thats because while it may render a small thing really well, trying to do it in a large game world will be too slow and a game with just 1 character in a small room just isn't that interesting.

also no one really cares about hair rendering like that. especially in a game. if they want to talk about the power of their card, have a real time video of it running 3dmark and post many other real world game benchmarks.

also it is less work to pay people to make a hair demo, just have then instead play a couple of games, which they will do anyway with the new cards.

 

[omnimodis78]

It's clear that either you're blinded by Fermi's specs sheet, or by ATI's current dominance, but seriously, I am quite embarrassed for nvidia right now. Can it be that this is the best simulation they could have come up with? At least if the movement was in real-time and super realistic, I mean so much so that it would have looked like a video recording, then I would have been impressed; but it's still clear that it's CG, and certainly it didn't make my head spin. It's really odd when a company's R&D dept. and their marketing dept. both screw up. Generally one holds down the company until stuff iron themselves out, but in this case they both seem to be high on something.

 

[lowguppy]

They need no hype, they're launching at PAX East. I wonder if Toms will be there.

 

[Regulas]

[citation][nom]rodney_ws[/nom]If I cared about demos, I'd have kept my Commodore 64.[/citation]
LOL, that brings back memories. My Q9650 & GTX 285 are still running great gave my nephew my older Athlon 64 x2 rig. The GTX 485 should be a good card if you were building a new rig.
Before the AMD fanboys start slamming my post. When I build a rig I look at all sides (intel, Nvidia, Amd). Tom's Hardware does some excellent charts I like to look at when doing pre-build research. I build what gives me the best performance for my buck.

 

[fernandogmd]

Great demo, now we can have a "Don´t mess with Zohan " game or Hair saloon simulation, can´t wait to play that!!

 

[Tomtompiper]

Should there be a "Sponsored by Fermi" before "Tom's Hardware"? Still getting nothing but the drip drip drip of Fermi cardboardware Hype, when real cards that we should be hearing about are being ignored. Are there any plans to benchmark this.

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That's one review I want to read.

 

[Guest]

ati cant do dat :]

 

[enzo matrix]

They did the same kind of demo with their 8800 back in 2008. Here's the info link.
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/siggraph-2008-hair.html
and the video:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/siggraph-2008-hair-video.html

Presentation was done by the same person too.

 

[thegreathuntingdolphin]

If I cared about demos, I'd have kept my Commodore 64.

Day = made.

 

[phantomtrooper]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Did she say "500 feps"? The hair doesn't animate very realistically IMO. It moves like it's under water or in low gravity. It's not so bad with wind, it's when she's just moving the model that it looks wrong. Still better than static hair though, of course.[/citation]

Demos like this are always in slowmo. IDK why they don't demo the stuff in real time but this is always how i've seen it done.

 

[Guest]

*looks at scalp*

*looks at Fermi chip*

Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?