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Radeon 5870 is a monster

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MajorMayhem
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Re: Radeon 5870 is a monster

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I approve of BOTH the above posts. It's funny though cause I don't remember them always sucking at OpenGL.
Master-Athmos
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Re: Radeon 5870 is a monster

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKtY2G3FbU

A tesselation demo where it's pretty much used to replace a POM effect. Very nice results. Framerate drop seems to be reasonable when looking the the increase in geometry...

I guess this is the way it's going to be used in the future. Especially with the advantages of real shadow casting geometry and the possibility to use MSAA...
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