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AMD and tessellation: A difficult relationship

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Scali

It’s been a few days since the launch of the Radeon 7970, and we’ve had some time to see how it performs and how it is received. In the comments of the previous post, Carsten pointed out a German review … Continue reading →

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What people like caveman-jim still don’t get about tessellation…

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Scali

Today I read this post by caveman-jim on the Rage3D forums: “…NVIDIA have lots of smaller tessellators where AMD has a single unit (two in VLIW-4 Cayman). This works great for tessellation factors (the # of subdivision) between 4 and 16, … Continue reading →

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Crysis 2 tessellation…

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Scali

The new DirectX 11 features in Crysis 2 were documented quite nicely by Crytek in this document: http://www.mycrysis.com/sites/default/files/support/download/c2_dx11_ultra_upgrade.pdf It sounds good: they use tessellation only where required, and tessellation uses an adaptive approach. They use Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) for … Continue reading →

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