R600: Finally DX10 Hardware from ATI

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

I expect on a Tessellation benchmark, the 2900XT will crush the 8800 GTX. No matter how TWEAKED the 8800 GTX is. This should come soon.

Yeah, but on tesselation an HD2600 would likely crush a GF8800GTX but it's not really a fair fight, and it is a limited feature.

To me it's like TruForm, COOL as ALL heck, but limited in its actual use. I was probably one of the few people who used it in Morrowind on my R8500 which had hardware support (later emulated on the R3xx+ series through shaders). Look at the difference TruForm made in Morrowind, it was truly impressive, and I expect Tesselation to do something similar only better still;
http://tes.lanior.ru/tweaker/images/root.html

at least Tessellation is part of the DX10 future so it should appear in more titles next year, not that many of the people with GF8800/HD2900s will still have them by that time and care much versus simply upgrading to new cards.

 

[enewmen]

Yeah, but on tesselation an HD2600 would likely crush a GF8800GTX but it's not really a fair fight, and it is a limited feature.

To me it's like TruForm, COOL as ALL heck, but limited in its actual use. I was probably one of the few people who used it in Morrowind on my R8500 which had hardware support (later emulated on the R3xx+ series through shaders). Look at the difference TruForm made in Morrowind, it was truly impressive, and I expect Tesselation to do something similar only better still;
http://tes.lanior.ru/tweaker/images/root.html

at least Tessellation is part of the DX10 future so it should appear in more titles next year, not that many of the people with GF8800/HD2900s will still have them by that time and care much versus simply upgrading to new cards.

Thanks for the link. The TruForm looks cool as all heck. Perhaps Tessellation can be added to Oblivion??
I'm still looking for ANY Tessellation benchmark.

 

[HYST3R]

the 7.7 catalyst drivers were just released, were they using those?

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Thanks for the link. The TruForm looks cool as all heck. Perhaps Tessellation can be added to Oblivion??

That would be cool, but Morrowind supported Truform from the start, it just needed to be enabled. Oblivion on the other hand doesn't have the option to add it right now. They could do an add-on later, but I wouldn't hold my breath, not worth Dev time if you ask me. They do a pretty good job of parallax mapping on the cave walls (best implementation I'd seen prior to COJ).

I'm still looking for ANY Tessellation benchmark.

There's no tesellation specific benchmark the way rthdribl is for HDR, and such but the AMD WhiteOut demo does use tessellation in the mountain relief IIRC. Yeah;
http://ati.amd.com/developer/demos/rhd2000.html#